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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.

Mary J. Blige

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Mary J. Blige
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: January 11
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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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If you're looking for inner peace from the outside world, you're not going to get that. The inner peace starts with looking at you from the inside.
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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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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.
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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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Negative words are powerful boomerangs so be careful what you say about people and yourself.
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The music business is not a good place for people who don't know things.
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If we didn't have understanding of our journey, we wouldn't be able to go on. We'd be stuck, like, 'Why me?'
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I don't know what kind of God the rest of y'all are serving, but the God I serve says, 'Mary, you need to be the hottest thing this year, and I'm gonna make sure you're doing that.'
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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.
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I never do any album to beat it. I do it to extend it.
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Just don't let the hype of what people are saying and how much they love you, y'know, just take the compliment and be thankful that people are complimenting you, but don't let it consume you don't let your circumstances around you and the way people view you make you act a certain way.
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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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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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Then my life crashed and burned down: trials, men, drama, no self-love, no identity. A little identity, but not a lot of love for myself, my life.
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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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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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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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You know a lot, but you don't know everything.
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I'm a singer who thinks like a rapper.
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