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I wouldn't adopt, but what I will do is give my time and go and try to be there for people.

Mary J. Blige

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Mary J. Blige
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: January 11
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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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I didn't never have to go to a therapist. I just always put it in a song and you heard me.
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I was inspired to create 'My Life' so I could finally share a personal part of my life beyond my music.
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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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I think women should band together to get us more respect in all the businesses that we're in because, you know, if we turn 40, we're nothing and nobody. We all should band together and just say we're not gonna go down like that.
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There are people out there who want to provoke me and bring back the old Mary but I'm not giving them the satisfaction.
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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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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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Negative words are powerful boomerangs so be careful what you say about people and 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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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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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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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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In the studio you can really concentrate on performing the song where as on stage you also have to worry about connecting with so many people, they're definitely different.
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Growing up, I was the preferred hairstylist for all of my friends.
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The younger Mary J. Blige, I would call her, she was very unaware, ignorant.
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