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You know a lot, but you don't know everything.
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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.
Mary J. Blige
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I grew up watching MTV, when Journey was huge, when Pat Benatar had 'Love Is a Battlefield,' and my friends and I used to cut school to watch this woman in the video. We loved Pat Benatar.
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I was inspired to create 'My Life' so I could finally share a personal part of my life beyond my music.
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Don't give up, be positive and if you know someone who knows someone at a record company don't stop beating down their door till you get heard. Don't ever say it'll never happen or it'll never happen.
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When I was a child I didn't care about getting an education, and I didn't finish high school.
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Sometimes I frown and I don't realise it.
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It's challenging to find an identity as a young person if you don't have the sustenance of love, because you're being shipped around.
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Two hurt people can not help each other. They can not.
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The music business is not a good place for people who don't know things.
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You can hate me. You can go out there and say anything you want about me, But you will love me later because I told you the truth.
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I like to do interior design, I love to quilt, I love to see different colors together, and I love to match things up.
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I hated myself for so many reasons, and I thought so many things were my fault that happened to me growing up.
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I believe there are certain things that God uses to get us out of a bad situation, and I believe music was one of the things he used for me.
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If we didn't have understanding of our journey, we wouldn't be able to go on. We'd be stuck, like, 'Why me?'
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I wish I had an extra day with my mom sometimes. Or another hour in the day with my family, husband and children.
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People know what they see but they don't know what's happening inside. If you want to know who you are and how you feel about yourself, take a look at your environment.
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I've been a tomboy my whole life. But then you get older, you get married, you soften up.
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I just love food, period.
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I don't listen to people's opinions. I have people around me who I can trust, but most of all I listen to myself.
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It was only for two years, and I jumped from family to family. It's very scary.
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This music business can suck all the love out of you, all the compassion for people - you can start to think you're better than them. But I want to continue to let people know that I'm no better and no worse, I'm just like you.
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I barely have time for my own children. To adopt more children and not have time for them, that would be poor parenting on my part.
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It's not just songs and glamour. It's sweat, blood, broken toes, and mistakes... It's life.
Mary J. Blige