Mary J. Blige Quotes
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If I'm going to be the best in what I do, I have to study what I'm doing, I have to see what I'm doing. I have to see it, I have to hear it. I'm just starting to appreciate myself - not starting, but appreciating myself in a way where I can look at myself back in a movie or listen to myself as much as I do now.
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You know a lot, but you don't know everything.
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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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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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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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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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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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Two hurt people can not help each other. They can not.
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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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The music business is not a good place for people who don't know things.
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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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It was only for two years, and I jumped from family to family. It's very scary.
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I just love food, period.
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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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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 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 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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I just want fans to walk away knowing that no matter what's going on, no matter how happy you are, no matter how sad you are, we did it. We're strong in this. We've come a long way, and life is not just one thing.
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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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Everything is scary if you look at it. So you just got to live.
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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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I used to think I was ugly. I thought I looked like a camel. A person who doesn't love themselves, they will see anything that pops up on their face. I've seen squirrels, I've seen a bird, and I've seen all kinds of animals on my face. But that is the result of self-hate. I've learned to say: 'You know what? I am a beautiful black woman'.
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It's not just songs and glamour. It's sweat, blood, broken toes, and mistakes... It's life.