Mary J. Blige Quotes
As a child I always wanted to be a singer. The music my mother played in the house moved me - Aretha Franklin, Chaka Khan, Mahalia Jackson. It was truly spiritual. It made you understand what God was. We are all spirits. We get depressed. But music makes you want to live. I know my music has saved my life.
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I put everything I think is sexy into my shoes.
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I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys.
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It's funny how a chubby kid can just be having fun, and people call it entertainment!
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When you watch it, you're like, Wow. I look like that. But it doesn't feel like that at all. It was about communicating with Gale Harold and getting across what I wanted to say about the character.
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I do a movie once every four years and they call it a comeback.
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Those men who, in war, seek to preserve their lives at any rate commonly die with shame and ignominy, while those who look upon death as common to all, and unavoidable, and are only solicitous to die with honour, oftener arrive at old age and, while they live, live happier.
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I do not believe any president can bind a successor president to give up his fundamental role as protector of the country.
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Me and my brothers started a musical group early on, and we were playing in places where we really weren't supposed to be.
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Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.
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There's not some idea I'm going to create a work that's going to change everybody's consciousness.
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I don't feel comfortable making empty music.
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When I'm singing, I connect the dots with notes.
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On a very gloomy dismal day, just such a one as it ought to be, I went to see Westminster Abbey.
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We will stand by the Paris climate deal.
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The 3-point shot has created a situation in the game akin to 'Lotto' fever.
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At the end of the day, we have an economy that works for the rich by cheating the poor, and unequal schools are the result of that, not the cause.
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Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
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If you are not being bullied all I would say - cause I like to talk about the other side of it as well - is you know, be someone that nurtures, and if there's someone in your class that maybe doesn't have a lot of friends, be the person that sits with them in the cafeteria sometimes; be the bigger person.
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I'm not a good Samaritan, I'm a businessman... The goal is to read and react. If we sign an artist that has potential for a shelf life way out in the distance, then we'll stay. But if not, then we won't.
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It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
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Cause my wife gets up and goes shopping.
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I have a thing for working with wounded characters.
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I wanted to show the thing that had to be corrected: I wanted to show the things that had to be appreciated.
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As a child I always wanted to be a singer. The music my mother played in the house moved me - Aretha Franklin, Chaka Khan, Mahalia Jackson. It was truly spiritual. It made you understand what God was. We are all spirits. We get depressed. But music makes you want to live. I know my music has saved my life.
