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'm not comfortable singing in front of people yet. That's going to take another 100 performances.
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In this business, things go in waves, and I might make a record every three years. That's enough for me; that satisfies me. And it satisfies the so-called public, because they don't really need a record every year. They don't even want one.
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Repetitiveness is one of the things that's most difficult to get away from in genre pictures, because people come specifically to see certain kinds of things but get disappointed if they're presented in the same way. So to try to find a new way to show old stuff is always the challenge.
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Perspective is the most important thing to have in life.
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The most satisfactory thing in all this earthly life is to be able to serve our fellow-beings-first, those who are bound to us by ties of love, then the wider circle of fellow-townsmen, fellow-countrymen, or fellow-men. To be of service is a solid foundation for contentment in this world.
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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.
