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I barely have time for my own children. To adopt more children and not have time for them, that would be poor parenting on my part.
Mary J. Blige
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Mary J. Blige
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: January 11
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It's up to us to choose whether we win or lose...and I choose to win.
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I care about me now. When I didn't care about me, I was, like, 'Why is this going wrong? Why is my life so bad?' But when you don't care about yourself, nobody else is going to care about you. So I learned to love myself, even if nobody else does.
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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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When I`m going to do a Christmas album I had to put my mind in Christmas mode. I had to go back to being a child and remembering all of that. When I go to do a project, I'm serious about it, so I wrap my world around it, and it becomes Christmastime for me and I'm singing songs like it's Christmas day.
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You demand respect and you'll get it. First of all, you give respect.
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No one compares to you. Just remember that. There's no one out there - there's only one of you, and that's it. And whatever you believe about you that's great, no one else has it. And I can't look like you, there's no way I can slip into your body and be you, and you can't slip into my body and be me. This is all we're gonna get.
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The younger Mary J. Blige, I would call her, she was very unaware, ignorant.
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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.
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I don't want no drama in my life, even though we have a little bit, but no more letting people control you. That's drama, because then you become something that you're not.
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It's that first step-getting out the door-that's the toughest. If you can do that, you've already won.
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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.
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God loves me and sent his son to die for me so I have to live to please him because he saved me when everyone abandoned me.
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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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People in my neighborhood inspired me to sing. Believe in your ability no matter what, but be realistic with yourself and your ability.
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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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I still get nervous about singing. I drink tea with honey and lemon before every concert. And I need to have scented candles in all of my hotel rooms.
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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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Believe in yourself when nobody else does.
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As a child I always wanted to be a singer. The music my mother played in the house moved me - Aretha Franklin, Chaka Khan, Mahalia Jackson. It was truly spiritual. It made you understand what God was. We are all spirits. We get depressed. But music makes you want to live. I know my music has saved my life.
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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.
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