Mary J. Blige Quotes

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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We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.

John Archibald Wheeler

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I loved music, and in my ninth year at MIT, I decided to buy a hi-fi set. I figured that all I needed to do was look at the specifications. So I bought what looked like the best one, turned it on, and turned it off in five minutes, the sound was so poor.

Amar Bose

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We are having Internet Governance discussions and meetings and a very large number of people are discussing the future of the Internet who have no clue as to what the Internet is except that it is important and that they have to be involved.

Steve Crocker

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Tensions and violence in cities across America are reminders of how quickly communities can erupt with an absence of social trust.

Stanley A. McChrystal

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I may be a living legend, but that sure don't help when I've got to change a flat tire.

Roy Orbison

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Ultimately, there are only two emotions: love and fear. And pretty much anything else you want to name can be broken down into one of those.

Mary Steenburgen

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Well look, I mean, I think that prayer and holy water, and things like that are all fine. They don't do any good, but they don't necessarily do any harm. It's touching to be thought of in that way. It makes up for those who tell me that I've got my just desserts.

Christopher Hitchens

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There is, to be sure, sometimes only a small difference between being alert to possible danger and allowing oneself to become terrified to the point of paralysis by seeming or imagined portents.

Sherwin B. Nuland

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It has nothing to do with the emotional demands of a role; I've done comedies that are as draining to me as any drama.

Sean Penn

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I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.

Thomas Jefferson

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The first job I ever had in my life was in the Dade County Sheriff's Office in the Identification Bureau in the summer that I graduated from high school and was getting ready to go to college.

Janet Reno

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The world is set up - as foreign as that can be to some people who are very materialistic - but there is a force in this world, once we step into it, that opens doors for us, that gives us a sense of purpose and the greatest life there is, in my view.

James Redfield

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