Mary J. Blige Quotes
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I pledged to become the world's greatest expert in a field I knew nothing about.
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My songs have a lot going on in them -they're packed with sounds. When I have only three or four minutes to capture something, I guess I can't stand the idea of any bar going unloved.
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Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance.
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So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
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America's victory in the Cold War was not without painful social costs.
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I wish I'd gone to music school or just started playing in bands sooner.
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I used to be obsessed with race. I'm more obsessed with class now.
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So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
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I was a good decathlete until I got with a coach that really knew how to train specifically for the event... I'd really describe it as like being a juggler; you have ten balls and you're trying to get them all in the air at the same time.
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I want a future where my children feel safe and appreciated and proud to be who they are. My heart is one with all the Arab Spring heroes, no matter how small they think their role is. I know they believe, like me, that we are working for a world whereby an Arab can live with the other in a respectful and dignified way.
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China is a country, still, of great contrast. While hundreds of millions of people are part of the middle class and yearn for things made in America - American brands, movies, music - there are other hundreds of millions of people throughout China who are living on the equivalent of one U.S. dollar a day.
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I'm always nervous when I start a new picture.
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Integrity is so perishable in the summer months of success.
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I made a lot of money. I earned a lot of money with CNN and satellite and cable television. And you can't really spend large sums of money, intelligently, on buying things. So I thought the best thing I could do was put some of that money back to work - making an investment in the future of humanity.
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I haven't done as many films as I would have liked.
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However, anyone to whom this happens should not leave his room upon awakening, should speak to no-one, but remain alone and sober until everything comes back to him, and he recalls the dream.
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We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.
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A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.
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You are as old as you look. If you are fit and pretty at an X age, why won't filmmakers want to cast you, whether you are married or not?
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I've proved to myself I can get along in different kinds of parts and different kinds of productions.
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My thing is music, period.
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Fifty years from now, if an understanding of man's origins, his evolution, his history, his progress is not in the common place of the school books, we shall not exist.
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People don't always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history.
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I do consider myself part of black history.
