Mary J. Blige Quotes
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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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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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It's OK showing yourself some love.
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I didn't know how to show my self love, and I didn't want anyone else to hurt me. So my tough girl attitude was like, 'I'm not having it.'
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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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My responsibility to God is to live. That's the gift he gave me.
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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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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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Just don't let the hype of what people are saying and how much they love you, y'know, just take the compliment and be thankful that people are complimenting you, but don't let it consume you; don't let your circumstances around you and the way people view you make you act a certain way.
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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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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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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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I'm on my way to a place where I'd never dreamed I'd be, and that's perfection.
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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 can have as many bad days as anyone. But I choose to say, 'I'm just fine.'
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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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If you're here right now in your life, your journey continues and you've lived to tell the story.
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'My Life' is soft, with notes of pear and gardenia, but still bold, with a woody base.
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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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My first album is playful.
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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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When life is real, it's not going to be smooth.
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As long as I live, I know I'll have feelings. And that's what I'm passionate about.
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My journey continues, because I've, you know, conquered a lot. And I know how to conquer the rest.