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Growing up, I was the preferred hairstylist for all of my friends.
Mary J. Blige
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Mary J. Blige
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: January 11
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Mary Jane Blige
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Everything is scary if you look at it. So you just got to live.
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In your life there's peaks and valleys and sometimes we regress, and we don't even know we regress. You just have to learn how to accept all of your mistakes and learn to love yourself again.
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When you're going to do whatever you're going to do, you have to get your, put your mind into it.
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There's not enough time to be disrespecting... Life is too short.
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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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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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Negative words are powerful boomerangs so be careful what you say about people and yourself.
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I like to do interior design, I love to quilt, I love to see different colors together, and I love to match things up.
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Believe in yourself when nobody else does.
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I cannot save the world, that's not what I'm trying to do. I guess I'm just trying to walk the walk and be an example to those that want it. Not everybody does, but if Mary J Blige can come out of that same hole you were in, then you can do it too - that's my goal: to do that without saying it, but actually live it.
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If you're here right now in your life, your journey continues and you've lived to tell the story.
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The music business is not a good place for people who don't know things.
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I'm striving toward this acting thing. I'm definitely gonna work hard on that, whatever comes my way, I'm gonna work hard on it.
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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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Cause I'm no better than you, you, or you. And I can't get on no throne and preach, 'cause I'm not God.
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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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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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It's OK showing yourself some love.
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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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