Mary J. Blige Quotes
I care about me now. When I didn't care about me, I was, like, 'Why is this going wrong? Why is my life so bad?' But when you don't care about yourself, nobody else is going to care about you. So I learned to love myself, even if nobody else does.
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Here's what I have at my advantage: I've never been a personality. I've always been a character actor.
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The country needs more than one-party dominance, as much as I believe the Democratic Party is the party for the middle class... We need to have a marketplace of ideas.
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I believe in reincarnation of the soul.
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The thing is, people can't complain about profit-oriented moves if they're only interested in profit themselves. You can't have it both ways. If they're willing to polish up a gift and sell it to make money, they can't really complain about the fact that somebody above them has sold them down the river. That's the way it goes.
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Not always trainers, but if I don't have to, I don't wear high heels. It's really just if something looks good on me, I'm going to buy it. It can be Zara or Chanel... I'm going to buy it.
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My films have been progressing towards a certain kind of minimalism, even though it was never intended. Elements which can be eliminated have been eliminated.
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I'm not a universalist, and the way I talk about final loss is this: People worship idols - money, whatever. Their humanness gets reshaped around the idol - you become like what you worship. That's one of the basic spiritual laws.
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I grew up in Pittsburgh, and regularly, my parents would take us to the Holiday House Supper Club to see acts like Nancy Wilson, Sarah Vaughn, Ben Vereen, Freda Payne, Stephanie Mills, and The Temptations, to name a few.
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My bag always weighs a ton. I carry my whole bathroom with me. You never know what's going to happen in a day!
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I love 'Strange Brew'. I quote that movie all the time, and no one knows what I'm talking about.
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Fear obscures reason, intensifies emotions, and makes it easier for demagogic politicians to mobilize the public on behalf of the policies they want to pursue.
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When I did 'Guffman,' it was terrifying. I didn't know what to say. I started talking, and it just came out.
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The natural sweetness of leeks, with their soft, oniony aroma, makes them the perfect winter comfort food.
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Employees that feel known and they feel like they know why their job matters and they have a sense of measuring it stay later, do extra work, and are committed to the organization above the requirements that they have.
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We will stand by the Paris climate deal.
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If you can tune into your purpose and really align with it, setting goals so that your vision is an expression of that purpose, then life flows much more easily.
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I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.
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God primes the pump of obligation.
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God will finish what He authors, but He is not obligated to finish what He has not authored.
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Seek not, my soul, the life of the immortals; but enjoy to the full the resources that are within thy reach.
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My mother saved hundreds of animals in her life. Wherever she encountered and injured or needy or abandoned animal, she brought it home.
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Just because you miss someone doesn't mean you need them back in your life. Missing is just a part of moving on.
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The difference between successes and failures in life is simply that winners take the first step.
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I care about me now. When I didn't care about me, I was, like, 'Why is this going wrong? Why is my life so bad?' But when you don't care about yourself, nobody else is going to care about you. So I learned to love myself, even if nobody else does.
