Mary J. Blige Quotes
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It is part of my responsibility as a bridge builder to speak the truth about what's great about America, what we've done right, and what our less glorious moments. And many people feel that the Iraq adventure, for example, has been one of our less glorious moments.
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I started as an actor. I started directing because Steppenwolf needed another strong director.
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I don't take fancy vacations. I buy all my jewelry at Claire's. I can't remember the last time I went out to a fancy dinner. My family lives in a modest two-bedroom apartment, and my kids share a bedroom. But I do have one extravagant vice: shoes.
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I have nothing against priests. In fact, I tried for a time to be one... It should be clear, then, that I respect, and am often fond of, the many priests in my life.
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We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.
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I don't just want to support only Muslim women. I want to inspire women across the board, and I'm hoping they won't allow things to get in the way.
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When I was eight, a hippie guy taught me how to meditate and gave me this scarf I was supposed to wear when I meditated. I still have it; it's probably one of the items that mean most to me.
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In a minimal interior, what you don't do is as important as what you do.
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You've got to be willing to put the time into seeing who's got talent and who's going to do a great job.
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My dad's a Republican. My dad's my mentor. When I was 18 or whatever it was and I decided to register to vote. My dad's Republican, so that's what I decided to register as.
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But I loved the theatre and I was just doing theatre 24/7 and kept dropping courses because I didn't have the time and the chancellor thought that wasn't a good idea after awhile.
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We can't have democracy if we're having to protect you and our users from the government over stuff we've never had a conversation about. We need to know what the parameters are, what kind of surveillance the government is going to do, and how and why.
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I enjoyed the courtroom as just another stage but not so amusing as Broadway.
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You see in the streets of London, great and little boys running about in long blue coats, which, like robes, reach quite down to the feet, and little white bands, such as the clergy wear.
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I guess I always leaned to the theatrical.
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I want to work in revelations, not just spin silly tales for money. I want to fish as deep down as possible into my own subconscious in the belief that once that far down, everyone will understand because they are the same that far down.
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Somebody said that it couldn't be done,But he with a chuckle replied 'maybe it couldn't,' but he would be one wouldn't say so till he'd tried. he buckled right in with the trace of a grin his face. If he worried he hid it.He started to sing as he tackled the thingThat couldn't be done, and he did it.
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You tell it that it's indicative by appending $!. That's why we made $! such a short variable name, after all.
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God makes sech nights, all white an' still,Fur'z you can look or listen,Moonshine an' snow on field an' hill,All silence an' all glisten.
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Actually, with 'Truth of Touch' I wasn't even intending on making an album. I was just having fun. I had about a six-month period of down time, and I'm not very good at sitting around. So I kind of started going into the studio and having fun with new core mendin sounds.
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It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about.
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I was going to live on my salary or go down swinging.
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You take a guy like George Clooney who goes out there to Darfur, and gets things done! That's magical. He's done a great thing.
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Larry David makes me laugh.
