Mary J. Blige Quotes
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In the inner city, there's a mentality that the government owes you something. My breakthrough came when I stopped feeling sorry for myself and took responsibility for every part of my life. No more pity parties. I've gotta love me more than anybody else loves me.
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It's OK showing yourself some love.
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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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You either learn from your experiences or go back and do the same thing, and I learned from my experiences.
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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'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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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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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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I can't just make a song people can dance in a club to... it still has to be real.
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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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My responsibility to God is to live. That's the gift he gave me.
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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 on my way to a place where I'd never dreamed I'd be, and that's perfection.
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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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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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'My Life' is soft, with notes of pear and gardenia, but still bold, with a woody base.
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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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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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I like French fries; I like mashed. I love potatoes.
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My first album is playful.
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My journey continues, because I've, you know, conquered a lot. And I know how to conquer the rest.
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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 know who I am. I am not perfect. I'm not the most beautiful woman in the world. But I'm one of them.