Mary J. Blige Quotes
In the inner city, there's a mentality that the government owes you something. My breakthrough came when I stopped feeling sorry for myself and took responsibility for every part of my life. No more pity parties. I've gotta love me more than anybody else loves me.
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You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'
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Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
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Even as a 10-year-old, I remember trying to explain to my mother and stepfather how upset and frustrated a messy room made me. But they just couldn't grasp it. They wanted me to be playing with baseballs and frogs while I wanted to be scouring garage sales.
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Everything must be carried out in extreme sobriety.
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I came of age as a male lead actor just as the TV landscape dramatically shifted.
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Symbolism is alright in 'fiction,' but I tell true life stories simply about what happened to people I knew.
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I enjoyed making this album a lot because of the knowledge we acquired over the last 3 years.
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I never wanted a big wedding. I never wanted to wear a white dress or throw a bouquet.
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Football was what I was good at, and it was what I loved.
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I figured out early on what I wanted to do.
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The essential lesson I've learned in life is to just be yourself. Treasure the magnificent being that you are and recognize first and foremost you're not here as a human being only. You're a spiritual being having a human experience.
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Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment.
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My life is not perfect.
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Lebanon, Israel, Ireland, South Africa - wherever there is a bleeding sore on the body of the world, the same hard-eyed narrow-minded fanatics are busy, indifferent to life, in love with death.
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Few of them were to be trusted within reach of a trowel and a pile of bricks.
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I sang the songs in 'The Doors'.
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I loved every day I was in politics. But I got out at the right time. I never miss it.
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When I started writing at 18 or 19, I had a fear of anything autobiographical, but I've come to realise that my writing is very autobiographical at the emotional level.
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I got hit up for a tampon commercial and so I asked [JD and Jo] if they had anything. Jo sent that over and I was like, "I love this track. Oh my god. It's so upbeat. It's so positive. It would be so great for a tampon commercial." That commercial never came through, so then I just had it. I was like, "That would be great for a Hillary [Clinton] song." I think it's so funny that it could be a tampon commercial.
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Can any of you seriously say the Bill of Rights could get through Congress today? It wouldn't even get out of committee.
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Prayer and helplessness are inseparable. Only he who is helpless can truly pray. Your helplessness is your best. prayer.
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A woman's life can really be a succession of lives, each revolving around some emotionally compelling situation or challenge, and each marked off by some intense experience.
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In the inner city, there's a mentality that the government owes you something. My breakthrough came when I stopped feeling sorry for myself and took responsibility for every part of my life. No more pity parties. I've gotta love me more than anybody else loves me.
