Mary J. Blige Quotes

I've never been a mean person.

Mary J. Blige

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• The mirror to the beautiful is beautiful.

  

  Said Nursi
  • Beautiful
  • Mirror

• I didn't audition for 'SNL.' I sent in a tape to 'SNL' the year before I started writing there, but I got the job there through doing stand-up on Fallon.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Job

• 'Glee' is one of the very few mainstream outlets that is giving a voice to communities of people that don't necessarily have a loud voice, specifically the gay community. It gives a really positive and forward statement.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • People
  • Giving
  • Community

• I think protecting your family and giving to them is so important. It's the most important achievement.

  

  Natalia Vodianova
  • Important
  • Family
  • Giving

• If Trump's talking to Putin can help end the bloodshed in Ukraine or Syria, it would appear to be at least as ethical an act as pulpiteering about our moral superiority on the Sunday talk shows.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Help
  • Moral
  • End

• I like to think of myself as classy.

  

  Ieva Laguna
  • Think
  • Myself
  • Classy

• People will tell you anything but what they do is always the truth.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Truth
  • You

• I do, I kick major butt in 'Dredd.' I get to kill people. I break a guy's neck by roundhouse kicking him in the face. It was me, I did it. I learned how to roundhouse kick. I also do it with my hands cuffed behind my back so it's pretty cool I have to say. Yeah, leather body suit, blonde hair, the whole thing.

  

  Olivia Thirlby
  • People
  • Guy
  • Pretty

• Be as transparent as you can in your trade. The big thing in life is trust.

  

  T. S. Kalyanaraman
  • Life
  • You
  • Trust

• My first job in Brazil was actually to develop a way to improve the readability of billboards, and based on speed, angle of approach and actually blocks of text. It was very - actually, it was a very good study, and got me a job in an ad agency. And they also decided that I had to - to give me a very ugly Plexiglas trophy for it.

  

  Vik Muniz
  • Good
  • Job
  • Study

• I don't come from a famous family and don't have this detachment from everyday people and everyday life. I'm just doing my job and the attention that comes with it is part of the territory.

  

  Ed Westwick
  • People
  • Life
  • Family

• Since I started composing I have always worked with series of tempos, even superimposed the music of different groups of musicians, of singers, instrumentalists who play and sing in different tempos simultaneously and then meet every now and then in the same tempo.

  

  Karlheinz Stockhausen
  • Music
  • Different
  • Same

• I don't think it's the function of Congress to function well. It should drag its heels on the way to decision.

  

  Barber Conable
  • Think
  • Way
  • Decision

• It would not be amiss for the novice to write the last paragraph of his story first, once a synopsis of the plot has been carefully prepared - as it always should be.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Always
  • Story
  • Last

• Children in early adolescence tend to exaggerate or romanticize sexual experiences and that adolescents with disorganized families, such as the complainant, are even more prone to such behavior.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Children

• Is this the Thing the Lord God made and gave To have dominion over sea and land; To trace the stars and search the heavens for power; To feel the passion of Eternity?

  

  Edwin Markham
  • God
  • Power
  • Passion

• There is no separation between mind and body... Self and other co-arise and fall away all the time.

  

  Deepak Chopra
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Fall

• My journalistic heroes are Peter Jennings and Ted Koppel and Tim Russert and Edward R. Murrow, among others, because they were tough.

  

  Jake Tapper

• To this day I do not know whether the power which has inspired my works is something related to religion, or is indeed religion itself.

  

  Kathe Kollwitz
  • Power
  • Inspired

• When I walk out there on court, I become a maniac... Something comes over me, man.

  

  John McEnroe

• You can't get anymore classic than being a part of a Disney animated film. To me, that's something I can have in my back pocket for the rest of my life. I'll be able to show it to my kids. I'll be walking around Disneyland, and it'll be bizarre to shake hands with Rapunzel.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Life
  • Kids
  • Rest

• Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Joy
  • Tragedy
  • Periods

• Like other beautiful things in this world, its end (that of a shaft) is to be beautiful; and, in proportion to its beauty, it receives permission to be otherwise useless. We do not blame emeralds and rubies because we cannot make them into heads of hammers.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Beauty
  • Blame
  • Useless

• I've never been a mean person.

  

  Mary J. Blige