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You either learn from your experiences or go back and do the same thing, and I learned from my experiences.
Mary J. Blige
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Mary J. Blige
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: January 11
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I decided to start my own label because so many people with talent come to me wanting to know how they can get in the music business.
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I never do any album to beat it. I do it to extend it.
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It's challenging to find an identity as a young person if you don't have the sustenance of love, because you're being shipped around.
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I used to think I was ugly. I thought I looked like a camel. A person who doesn't love themselves, they will see anything that pops up on their face. I've seen squirrels, I've seen a bird, and I've seen all kinds of animals on my face. But that is the result of self-hate. I've learned to say: 'You know what? I am a beautiful black woman'.
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In the inner city, there's a mentality that the government owes you something. My breakthrough came when I stopped feeling sorry for myself and took responsibility for every part of my life. No more pity parties. I've gotta love me more than anybody else loves me.
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From being a little girl in the projects, going through all of the mess that I was going through, to ending up at the Inauguration for the first African-American president, I'm speechless right now because I never thought I'd - I never ever - I couldn't even see that far. Even when I ended up in the music business I couldn't see that.
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You demand respect and you'll get it. First of all, you give respect.
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There's not enough time to be disrespecting... Life is too short.
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It hurts a lot when you cannot really comprehend what a person is saying in a meeting, or you don't even understand what you're reading in your contract.
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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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My God is a God who wants me to have things. He wants me to bling. He wants me to be the hottest thing on the block.
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I believe there are certain things that God uses to get us out of a bad situation, and I believe music was one of the things he used for me.
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This music business can suck all the love out of you, all the compassion for people - you can start to think you're better than them. But I want to continue to let people know that I'm no better and no worse, I'm just like you.
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Don't go a full day or night without washing your face. You have to get all the dirt and makeup out of your pores.
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Negative words are powerful boomerangs so be careful what you say about people and yourself.
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I started speaking about what I was dealing with through my music, and 4 million women responded and said, 'Us too, Mary.' And I didn't know that everyone was hurting like I was hurting. I had no idea.
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Life is full of trials and tribulations. It's dramatic when you don't treat people right when you're in the tribulations, but I know now how to get out of it. You have to make a decision to say 'No more', and then you know what to do when the trials happen.
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Don't give up, be positive and if you know someone who knows someone at a record company don't stop beating down their door till you get heard. Don't ever say it'll never happen or it'll never happen.
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I'm hoping that my entrepreneurial side will have me at a place where I don't have to do anything. That's what I'm striving for.
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The younger Mary J. Blige, I would call her, she was very unaware, ignorant.
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