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As far as men go, they never gave me a chance to be me they were always scared that somebody was going to take me.
Mary J. Blige
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Mary J. Blige
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: January 11
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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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I like hanging out with me, and I've accepted everything about me good, bad whatever it is. That's why I'm able to, that's why no one can tell me anything negative about myself.
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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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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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I felt ashamed about everything. Me dropping out of high school, me not, you know, just not being beautiful enough. I just didn't feel like I was smart enough or beautiful enough, you know, for years.
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I'm from the element of the streets that says that once you've made it, it's yours. But keep it to yourself.
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I'm a singer who thinks like a rapper.
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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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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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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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The younger Mary J. Blige, I would call her, she was very unaware, ignorant.
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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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It's up to us to choose whether we win or lose...and I choose to win.
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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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Larry David makes me laugh.
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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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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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The music business is not a good place for people who don't know things.
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I've been praying to God to show me how to forgive myself. Because... maybe... that's the thing I've been searching for.
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You demand respect and you'll get it. First of all, you give respect.
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