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.'
Zack Snyder
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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.
Nat Wolff
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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.
Nate Berkus
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Everything must be carried out in extreme sobriety.
Gabriele Nanni
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I came of age as a male lead actor just as the TV landscape dramatically shifted.
Damian Lewis
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Symbolism is alright in 'fiction,' but I tell true life stories simply about what happened to people I knew.
Jack Kerouac
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I enjoyed making this album a lot because of the knowledge we acquired over the last 3 years.
Isaac Hanson Hanson
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I never wanted a big wedding. I never wanted to wear a white dress or throw a bouquet.
Taylor Jenkins Reid
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Football was what I was good at, and it was what I loved.
Victor Cruz
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I figured out early on what I wanted to do.
T Bone Burnett
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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.
Wayne Dyer
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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.
Irving Babbitt
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My life is not perfect.
Zoe Sugg
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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.
J. M. Coetzee
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Few of them were to be trusted within reach of a trowel and a pile of bricks.
P. G. Wodehouse
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I sang the songs in 'The Doors'.
Val Kilmer
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I loved every day I was in politics. But I got out at the right time. I never miss it.
Abraham A. Ribicoff
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I don't think that I'm old.
Jamie Moyer
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We frequently fall into error and folly, Dr. Johnson tells us, 'not because the true principles of action are not known, but because, for a time, they are not remembered.' To compress, therefore, the great and obvious rules of life into brief sentences which are not easily forgotten is, as he said, to confer a real benefit upon us.
Logan Pearsall Smith
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Even prior to marriage and motherhood, it's always been about prioritising and focusing on what you can commit to. That's been my approach to every aspect of my life, be it my relationships or my professional commitments.
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
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From a very early period of my life I have derived the highest enjoyment from listening to music, especially to melody, which is to me the most pleasing form of composition.
James Nasmyth
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Just as we accumulate memories of facts by integrating them into a network, we accumulate life experiences by integrating them into a web of other chronological memories. The denser the web, the denser the experience of time.
Joshua Foer
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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.
Mary J. Blige