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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In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.
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I don't like to Google myself. I try and avoid it whenever I can.
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No one asks how to motivate a baby. A baby naturally explores everything it can get at, unless restraining forces have already been at work. And this tendency doesn't die out, it's wiped out.
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John Sayles is good. He's like a good thoroughbred owner - he leaves the trainers alone.
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It's crazy: the first black man to actually step foot in America came as a free man, as an explorer, with the Spaniards. That's something for me - as a black American, it gives me a little bit of pride because we were free and respected somewhere else before slavery became what it was.
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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.
