Mary J. Blige Quotes

One day I realized that I wasn't getting anywhere by blaming other people for my circumstances. I finally understood: Even if you feel someone has wronged you or owes you something, no one is going to give you anything for free.

Mary J. Blige

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If you don't feel apologetic for slavery, if you don't feel apologetic for colonialism, if you feel proud of it then say that.

Jesse Jackson

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I think that in Sweden and a lot of European countries, there's this whole mythology of the wounded artist: that you can't really do any great art unless you're suffering.

Joel Kinnaman

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I want an explosion the size of Cleveland.

Joel Silver

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I super strongly identify with marginalized communities. I'm not at all religious, but I feel super, super Jewish. I can't even describe the feeling, but it actually feels really similar to being gay, the kind of kinship that you feel with the LGBTQ people. That same sense of community is there with Judaism.

Troye Sivan

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Although I married a sports-loving jock, I myself am not only not athletic, I am acutely, completely uncoordinated.

Mary Kay Andrews

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You have to want to be in the company of those you're making films about.

Mira Nair

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Lots of pretty faces came and went over the years, but some stuck around and I happen to be one of them.

Milla Jovovich

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Accept the terrible responsibility of life with eyes wide open.

Jordan Peterson

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Many creative people are finding that creativity doesn't grow in abundance, it grows from scarcity - the more Lego bricks you have doesn't mean you're going to be more creative; you can be very creative with very few Lego bricks.

Jorgen Vig Knudstorp

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Rejection is part of the process, so you can't let it crush you. My first three novels never made it into publication, but my fourth, 'Sheltering Rain,' was translated into 11 languages.

Jojo Moyes

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You cannot get ahead while you are getting even.

Dick Armey

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Yes. We do think that the stimulus package is raising GDP and raising employment relative to what would have happened otherwise.

Doug Elmendorf

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