Top mary Quotes Collection

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If you're here right now in your life, your journey continues and you've lived to tell the story.
- Mary J. Blige
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So many people are like, 'I'm perfect.' I'm so imperfect; that's why I'm able to let everything out and let people see everything. 'Cause I'm just a mess like every other person that's a mess out there.
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So as long as I'm a human being and I'm not perfect, I'm able to say I'm having some growing pains. Because in order to sustain where you are once you made such a breakthrough that everyone is looking at you, now everyone is like, 'Ooh, is she gonna make a mistake?' Yes, I'm going to make a mistake. Yes, I'm still gonna do things.
- Mary J. Blige
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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.
- Mary J. Blige
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Growing up, I was the preferred hairstylist for all of my friends.
- Mary J. Blige
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I've been praying to God to show me how to forgive myself. Because... maybe... that's the thing I've been searching for.
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I believe that anything man himself can do for me, God can do for me in a greater way. I decided to pray and to seek God on my own. I just stayed in The Word. And it worked.
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I believe this generation should know their history and they should know that the struggle's not over yet.
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I think women should band together to get us more respect in all the businesses that we're in because, you know, if we turn 40, we're nothing and nobody. We all should band together and just say we're not gonna go down like that.
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I know the sag of the unfinished poem. And I know the release of the poem that is finished.
- Mary Oliver
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I worked probably 25 years by myself, just writing and working, not trying to publish much, not giving readings.
- Mary Oliver
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The challenge is to keep up with all the new poets at the same time I love the old ones.
- Mary Oliver
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My first two books are out of print and, okay, they can sleep there comfortably. It's early work, derivative work.
- Mary Oliver
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I do consider myself part of black history.
- Mary J. Blige
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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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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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I can see the music. I know what it looks like. I know what color it is. The words come easy, the tears come easy, and the joy comes easy. The music tells you what to do.
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I'm on my way to a place where I'd never dreamed I'd be, and that's perfection.
- Mary J. Blige
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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.
- Mary J. Blige
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I don't know what kind of God the rest of y'all are serving, but the God I serve says, 'Mary, you need to be the hottest thing this year, and I'm gonna make sure you're doing that.'
- Mary J. Blige
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I don't think there's anything they can say about me that I haven't said about myself already. And I would be an absolute total liar, and my fans would not respect me, if I said that my life and my marriage are perfect. But we absolutely love each other; we have fun together - it's great.
- Mary J. Blige
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I've never been a mean person.
- Mary J. Blige
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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.
- Mary J. Blige
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There are people out there who want to provoke me and bring back the old Mary but I'm not giving them the satisfaction.
- Mary J. Blige
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When I was a kid, I needed to sing because it makes me feel good about myself. It makes me feel good, period.
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Yonkers made me strong and made me believe in myself, because so many people would doubt you and not believe. There are people that would believe in you, but the environment was so harsh, nobody wanted you to get out, you know?
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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.
- Mary J. Blige
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As a kid, I dreamed about being onstage.
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I'm a child of God. God is my mommy, my daddy. That's the only thing that'll keep my head up. If I don't remember who I am in him, I'm done.
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I'm a singer who thinks like a rapper.
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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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You demand respect and you'll get it. First of all, you give respect.
- Mary J. Blige
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When I was little, like 7 to 15, there was nothing I wanted to do but go to church and go to school.
- Mary J. Blige
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No one intimidates me because I'm not trying to do what you do, because I can't do what you do. I can only do what Mary J. Blige can do, so that relaxes me right there, and it gets me out of the competition and that whole thing.
- Mary J. Blige
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I'm my worst critic, and I like the fact that I can listen to myself now and make fun of myself, listen, make changes - 'Oh, man, that's messed up. Okay, I need to work on that; I need to work on this.'
- Mary J. Blige
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I've done well, I've been disappointed, and I think it all goes back to you. Of course the labels are going to be the labels. It's the music business. You are a business. That's what they do. So you've got to protect yourself.
- Mary J. Blige
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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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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.
- Mary J. Blige
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I can go out raw with nothing, and my fans would still be happy, but I feel that I owe it to them to give them almost like a Broadway musical at this point in my life. I have to give them something more, so I do have to think of different ways to do it.
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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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When you wake up and learn to love yourself and want to take care of yourself, things are harder because people don't like the idea of it. But when you get in trouble, it gives people things to talk about.
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I truly enjoy Bono. I think he is an amazing person; I love him.
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My main exercise is cardio. The treadmill is fine, but running outdoors gives me the best results. I try to log 6 to 8 miles a week. I could be in the worst mood, but when I do my cardio, I feel much, much better.
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I suffered from self hatred so much. It's like I didn't want to look like that any more. I didn't to feel like that any more. It had to be another way.
- Mary J. Blige
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I've been a tomboy my whole life. But then you get older, you get married, you soften up.
- Mary J. Blige
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If you're not confident in yourself, you're going to waver. I've wavered, and I've lost.
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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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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 don't have any health problems, but to keep your health improves your quality of life.
- Mary J. Blige
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I just love food, period.
- Mary J. Blige
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