Mary J. Blige Quotes
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It hurts when you have to smile and you don't want to smile, but the best thing to do is to smile.
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As a kid, I was in love with Michael Jackson, and I just knew I was going to marry him someday.
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Music is where my love is. I don't think the acting thing is going to start outweighing that, but I think it's going to start being a good chunk of something I want to do.
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I like hanging out with me, and I've accepted everything about me good, bad whatever it is. That's why I'm able to, that's why no one can tell me anything negative about myself.
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Music makes us want to live. You don't know how many times people have told me that they'd been down and depressed and just wanted to die. But then a special song caught their ear and that helped give them renewed strength. That's the power music has.
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There's not enough time to be disrespecting... Life is too short.
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I didn't never have to go to a therapist. I just always put it in a song and you heard me.
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I never do any album to beat it. I do it to extend it.
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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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Nowadays, with the state of the music business, for any artist, whether you're up-and-coming or you've been in it for awhile, you have to explore different revenues and different ways of expressing yourself.
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I know who I am. I am not perfect. I'm not the most beautiful woman in the world. But I'm one of them.
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My responsibility to God is to live. That's the gift he gave me.
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I felt ashamed about everything. Me dropping out of high school, me not, you know, just not being beautiful enough. I just didn't feel like I was smart enough or beautiful enough, you know, for years.
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By the time I was a teenager, when I went outside the house, it was about hip-hop all the time. Nothing but hip-hop, block parties.
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I can have as many bad days as anyone. But I choose to say, 'I'm just fine.'
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Really, every woman is an example to me, because as women we go through so much pain. We have to live this perfect life when we are messed up inside. We all go through trials and tribulations.
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I can't just make a song people can dance in a club to... it still has to be real.
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God comes first - if I don't love him, I can't love anybody, and if I can't love me I can't love nobody.
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I wouldn't adopt, but what I will do is give my time and go and try to be there for people.
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I'm from the element of the streets that says that once you've made it, it's yours. But keep it to yourself.
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I'm striving toward this acting thing. I'm definitely gonna work hard on that, whatever comes my way, I'm gonna work hard on it.
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When you finally understand who you are, ages 6 through 60 will understand who you are. Because when they see a person that's come through all that I've come through, still standing, it's amazing.
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You either learn from your experiences or go back and do the same thing, and I learned from my experiences.
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'My Life' is soft, with notes of pear and gardenia, but still bold, with a woody base.