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Mary J. Blige Quotes

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.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: January 11, 1971

Topics

Time House Hip-Hop Nothing Outside

I once threw myself a surprise party on Twitter because I was lonely. It was awesome. Thousands of people showed up and then Wil Wheaton and I made a bunch of monkey-ponies. It was the most successful surprise party I've ever thrown in my life. It was also the only surprise party I've ever thrown in my whole life.

Life Myself People Surprise Lonely

You just don't, in the 21st century, behave in 19th-century fashion by invading another country on completely trumped up pre-text.

Fashion You Country Up Behave Just

I hate technology and cellphones. I hate having to have one all of the time. I don't tweet or buzz or bing or whatever! It's a conscious thing - I hate the way that it can take over young people's lives.

Technology Time Hate People Young

Nobody notices me. Nobody thinks I'm me. But then I look less like me than most of the people coming to our concerts.

People Me Look Nobody Coming Like

My image lends itself a little bit more to the modern fan, sometimes more toward the kids, and I guess more toward the wine drinkers... I mean, I have my own wine, and fans love to pull for people they relate to.

Love People Wine Sometimes Image

I don't remember, as a child, feeling a lack of anything.

Child Remember Feeling Anything Lack

From my experience, I've been honest about who I am and what I believe and the motivation behind my music. But I've played it in arenas that are for all people. I've pretty much stuck to that model my whole career.

Music Experience I Am People Believe

The only other time I can recall my dad getting upset at me was when I missed a hockey practice. My parents were away, so my buddy and I decided to skip it. I never told my dad about it, but he found out from the coach.

Time Practice Parents Me Hockey

To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.

Miguel de Unamuno

Habit Fall Begin Cease

What you feel spiritually. I think a lot of that has to do with it. If you have no spiritual life, chances are everything is going to aggravate you, you're going to fly off the handle at everything and that's what I did in the past. I've kind of got that under control now.

Life Past Spiritual Control Fly You

The baseball held was my fantasy of what life offered.

Life Baseball Fantasy Held Offered

Your role as a founder changes dramatically once your team hits 10, 20, 50, 100, and so on. Sometimes you forget how big you've grown and continue to act as if you're still 10 people.

People Team You Forget Sometimes

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