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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I am not somebody who likes to give advice, or anything like that, unless it's my closest friends or family.
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The School Energy Crisis Relief Act authorizes the Secretary of Energy to issue energy assistance grants to help the poorest school districts across the Nation offset these unexpected and challenging costs.
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I decided with 'Savage Season' to use a lot of things in my life as the basis.
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A man of 25 has before him some 100,000 working hours should he retire at 65. How many of your working hours will be alive with the magnificent force of positive mental attitude? And how many of them will have the life knocked out of them with the stunning blows of negative mental attitude?
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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.