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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.

Mary J. Blige

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Mary J. Blige
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: January 11
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I like French fries I like mashed. I love potatoes.
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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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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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The music business is not a good place for people who don't know things.
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When I was a kid, I needed to sing because it makes me feel good about myself. It makes me feel good, period.
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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 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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You can hate me. You can go out there and say anything you want about me, But you will love me later because I told you the truth.
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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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By the time I was a teenager, when I went outside the house, it was about hip-hop all the time. Nothing but hip-hop, block parties.
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It was only for two years, and I jumped from family to family. It's very scary.
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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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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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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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We are all just a work in progress.
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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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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.
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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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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 care about me now. When I didn't care about me, I was, like, 'Why is this going wrong? Why is my life so bad?' But when you don't care about yourself, nobody else is going to care about you. So I learned to love myself, even if nobody else does.
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