I do consider myself part of black history.
MARY J. BLIGE In the inner city, there's a mentality that the government owes you something. My breakthrough c...
MARY J. BLIGE The younger Mary J. Blige, I would call her, she was very unaware, ignorant.
MARY J. BLIGE No one intimidates me because I'm not trying to do what you do, because I can't do what you ...
MARY J. BLIGE I cannot save the world; that's not what I'm trying to do. I guess I'm just trying to wa...
MARY J. BLIGE From being a little girl in the projects, going through all of the mess that I was going through, to...
MARY J. BLIGE I know who I am. I am not perfect. I'm not the most beautiful woman in the world. But I'm on...
MARY J. BLIGE You can't get around pain and opposition, but you can try to be joyful in the trial, and thank y...
MARY J. BLIGE Really, every woman is an example to me, because as women we go through so much pain. We have to liv...
MARY J. BLIGE Just don't let the hype of what people are saying and how much they love you, y'know, just t...
MARY J. BLIGE It hurts when you have to smile and you don't want to smile, but the best thing to do is to smil...
MARY J. BLIGE I have to have lemon and honey. I have to have apple cider vinegar, Braggs. And I have to have eithe...
MARY J. BLIGE I like French fries; I like mashed. I love potatoes.
MARY J. BLIGE There's not enough time to be disrespecting... Life is too short.
MARY J. BLIGE I used to think I was ugly. I thought I looked like a camel. A person who doesn't love themselve...
MARY J. BLIGE One day I realized that I wasn't getting anywhere by blaming other people for my circumstances. ...
MARY J. BLIGE I don't know. Only God knows where the story ends for me, but I know where the story begins. It&...
MARY J. BLIGE So as long as I'm a human being and I'm not perfect, I'm able to say I'm having some...
MARY J. BLIGE I wish I had known that education is the key. That knowledge is power. Now I pick up books and watch...
MARY J. BLIGE God comes first - if I don't love him, I can't love anybody, and if I can't love me I ca...
MARY J. BLIGE You can look at my palm and see the storm coming. Read the book of my life and see I've overcome...
MARY J. BLIGE You can hate me. You can go out there and say anything you want about me, But you will love me later...
MARY J. BLIGE I'm my worst critic, and I like the fact that I can listen to myself now and make fun of myself,...
MARY J. BLIGE When you wake up and learn to love yourself and want to take care of yourself, things are harder bec...
MARY J. BLIGE Once you climb to another level, you have to figure out how to sustain it.
MARY J. BLIGE Believe in yourself when nobody else does.
MARY J. BLIGE My journey continues, because I've, you know, conquered a lot. And I know how to conquer the res...
MARY J. BLIGE My main exercise is cardio. The treadmill is fine, but running outdoors gives me the best results. I...
MARY J. BLIGE I felt ashamed about everything. Me dropping out of high school, me not, you know, just not being be...
MARY J. BLIGE Thank you so much for supporting me from the day I stepped foot into the music industry. It really m...
MARY J. BLIGE As a child I always wanted to be a singer. The music my mother played in the house moved me - Aretha...
MARY J. BLIGE There's so many things that life is, and no matter how many breakthroughs, trials will exist and...
MARY J. BLIGE I can have as many bad days as anyone. But I choose to say, 'I'm just fine.'
MARY J. BLIGE I believe there are certain things that God uses to get us out of a bad situation, and I believe mus...
MARY J. BLIGE I like to do interior design, I love to quilt, I love to see different colors together, and I love t...
MARY J. BLIGE I blame my mother for nothing, but forgive her for everything.
MARY J. BLIGE When you know what pain is, and when you have to make a choice, you learn that it is a decision. Peo...
MARY J. BLIGE I listen to gospel music.
MARY J. BLIGE We laugh really hard when we go out. We'll have a glass of wine, or we'll go to a club and dance. I'...
MARY J. BLIGE Onstage, you can't have things dragging or hanging. It has to be the tailored, custom-made (version)...
MARY J. BLIGE Me and my husband took him as a friend. He's someone we know we could talk to and call on if we have...
MARY J. BLIGE No one had ever heard of anyone that sounded like Luther,
MARY J. BLIGE I always want to be a messenger, a person that, you know, that's not afraid to pass on wisdom.
MARY J. BLIGE I don't have any health problems, but to keep your health improves your quality of life.
MARY J. BLIGE My God is a God who wants me to have things. He wants me to bling. He wants me to be the hottest thi...
MARY J. BLIGE I still get nervous about singing. I drink tea with honey and lemon before every concert. And I need...
MARY J. BLIGE I've just been growing right along. It's painful, but it's a great pain, and I like suff...
MARY J. BLIGE I didn't know how to show my self love, and I didn't want anyone else to hurt me. So my toug...
MARY J. BLIGE [Charles sings the ballad] It All Goes By So Fast ... Shout.
MARY J. BLIGE Music makes us want to live. You don't know how many times people have told me that they'd b...
MARY J. BLIGE There are people out there who want to provoke me and bring back the old Mary but I'm not giving...
MARY J. BLIGE Even if you feel someone has wronged you or owes you something, no one is going to give you anything...
MARY J. BLIGE If you're not confident in yourself, you're going to waver. I've wavered, and I've l...
MARY J. BLIGE I had to learn how to trust my gut. Trust what I know to be right... not right, but not waver on who...
MARY J. BLIGE Don't give up, be positive and if you know someone who knows someone at a record company don'...
MARY J. BLIGE It's challenging to find an identity as a young person if you don't have the sustenance of l...
MARY J. BLIGE I've been a tomboy my whole life. But then you get older, you get married, you soften up.
MARY J. BLIGE I believe this generation should know their history and they should know that the struggle's not...
MARY J. BLIGE Life is full of trials and tribulations. It's dramatic when you don't treat people right whe...
MARY J. BLIGE As long as government has the power to regulate business, business will control government by fundin...
MARY J. RUWART My mom taught me from a young age to give back and volunteer any chance you get. It was something th...
J. J. WATT No doubt about it. For every player. Thursday nights are very tough for us because it is a short tur...
J. J. WATT When I picture myself after football, it's down home, coaching high school football, just a rela...
J. J. WATT I know that I'm going out there, and I know that I am going to get hit in the head. I know that&...
J. J. WATT Since my sophomore year in high school, I knew I didn't want to do anything but be a professiona...
J. J. WATT If you're an outsider looking into my life, you're thinking, 'That dude is crazy. He'...
J. J. WATT Houston is kind of a melting pot. There are many different cultures and ethnicities represented out ...
J. J. WATT I get a lot of letters that say, 'I'm a normal, down-to-earth girl. I love to cook, and I lo...
J. J. WATT My dad's a firefighter, so I know what it's like for policemen and firefighters to be on the...
J. J. WATT If you're going to nap, make sure you have a proper chunk of time blocked out. I'm not one o...
J. J. WATT I will always do what I can to help others, but when I retire, I want to be a dad and a husband. I w...
J. J. WATT When it comes down to that moment, when it's me against you, you know in your head whether you w...
J. J. WATT You have to find the right situation, and you have to be in that right mindset where you can give ev...
J. J. WATT I ate a whole 20-inch pizza by myself one time.
J. J. WATT A reputation takes years and years and years to build, and it takes one press of a button to ruin it...
J. J. WATT I'll fight a bear, but I don't like spiders. I'm not a fan of those.
J. J. WATT I never want to let a day go by without having done something to get a little better.
J. J. WATT There's no greater feeling in the world than when you can put a smile on somebody's face jus...
J. J. WATT I want to coach high school football, and that's always what I've wanted to do.
J. J. WATT People always ask, 'Man, why don't you come out and enjoy it? Why don't you celebrate? W...
J. J. WATT A sack is way better than any nightclub. A touchdown is way better than any bar experience I've ...
J. J. WATT If you don't have that vision for the end goal, you have no clue where you're going, and you...
J. J. WATT I want to go out and chase greatness. That's all I want to do.
J. J. WATT Midi is my hobby.
J. J. JOHNSON There are no black film composers doing the likes of Star Wars, doing the likes of E.T., doing the l...
J. J. JOHNSON I was lucky enough to occasionally break out of that racist situation that prevails in the Hollywood...
J. J. JOHNSON Sometimes you need to stand with your nose to the window and have a good look at jazz. And I've ...
J. J. JOHNSON We have this obsession with broken homes. Everyone wants to find a problem with it, but not me. I ha...
J. J. FIELD You can win a talent show and be so famous that you can't walk down the street, but no-one knows...
J. J. FIELD The two cities I've found very hard to leave in my life were New York and Buenos Aires.
J. J. FIELD The ability of a television series to make adjustments is something you've got to take advantage...
J. J. ABRAMS I hate to look at the stuff I've written and consider what it means or why I do it.
J. J. ABRAMS I've had the same friends since I was in kindergarten.
J. J. ABRAMS I believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective.
J. J. ABRAMS When I was a kid, among the other embarrassing things I would do, and there's a list of stupid t...
J. J. ABRAMS People never know what they want, though everyone says they do. If they did, nobody would ever be su...
J. J. ABRAMS The goal is always to do B material in an A fashion.
J. J. ABRAMS I don't try and write strong female characters or strong male characters, I just try and write, ...
J. J. ABRAMS I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do.
J. J. ABRAMS Pitching is always a weird, difficult thing.
J. J. ABRAMS Whenever a toddler sees a pile of blocks, he wants to tear it down.
J. J. ABRAMS I don't think I have a signature.
J. J. ABRAMS I'm not trying to be coy or manipulative or Machiavellian, I want to spark people's imaginat...
J. J. ABRAMS I think that even if you're wondering if two characters are ever going to kiss, drawing out the ...
J. J. ABRAMS I love the idea of anthropomorphizing machines. I love the idea of taking technology and giving it a...
J. J. ABRAMS I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end...
J. J. ABRAMS When I was a kid, it was a huge insult to be a geek. Now it's a point of pride in a weird way.
J. J. ABRAMS You never want to have that ticking clock and know that you had all this time and didn't use it.
J. J. ABRAMS To me the interesting main character is never the one without flaws.
J. J. ABRAMS I think you have a passion and an obsession for something when it's not necessarily ubiquitous.
J. J. ABRAMS We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that.
J. J. ABRAMS It's a leap of faith doing any serialised storytelling.
J. J. ABRAMS When you work on something that combines both the spectacular and the relatable, the hyperreal and t...
J. J. ABRAMS Robotics are beginning to cross that line from absolutely primitive motion to motion that resembles ...
J. J. ABRAMS You can never guess or assume what anyone is going to think.
J. J. ABRAMS When budget cuts happen - which has been happening a lot in this country - after-school athletics an...
J. J. WATT I'm not strict on my calorie count; I just pay attention to my body.
J. J. WATT There are things of deadly earnest that can only be mentioned under the cover of a joke.
J. J. PROCTER If you want to be remembered as great, if you want to be a legend, you have to go out there every si...
J. J. WATT I obviously would love to have a girlfriend, but a girlfriend deserves so much of your time and ener...
J. J. WATT What I remember most about high school are the memories I created with my friends.
J. J. WATT I'm obsessed with things that are distinctly analogue.
J. J. ABRAMS Death is a low chemical trick played on everybody except sequoia trees.
J. J. FURNAS What's a bigger mystery box than a movie theater? You go to the theater, you're just so exci...
J. J. ABRAMS My dad was a firefighter for almost 30 years. My mom worked her way up from a secretary to vice pres...
J. J. WATT I'm sure I frustrate the trainers - in fact, I know I frustrate the trainers to no end. But I th...
J. J. WATT What I'm still grappling with and learning how to do is to be looking and thinking cinematically...
J. J. ABRAMS With three kids you are just trying to survive. You can't be fastidious.
J. J. ABRAMS You can find just about everything on my iPod from Eminem to Zac Brown to Justin Timberlake to One D...
J. J. WATT My family is a middle-class family. When I grew up and learned how much it actually cost for us to p...
J. J. WATT When you're in the National Football League, and you get this window where all eyes are on you, ...
J. J. WATT Making movies was more a reaction to not being chosen for sports. Other kids were out there playing ...
J. J. ABRAMS I Googled 'What do rich people buy?' Because I don't feel like a rich person, and I don&...
J. J. WATT Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that ...
J. J. ABRAMS It's hard to understand the life that I live and rationalize some of the things that I do. I don...
J. J. WATT In the off-season, I train twice a day, five times a week with my trainer. Then, there's always ...
J. J. WATT The way I look at it is that somebody in the world, no matter what your field is - teacher, violinis...
J. J. WATT You know, we've got to this place, where you go to a movie for one particular surgical fix. So, ...
J. J. ABRAMS I love the Stanley Cup playoffs.
J. J. WATT There is a malaise that exists in your land - what appears to many as the sudden and tragic disappea...
J. J. GREENE I'm a fast writer.
J. J. ABRAMS There are games where I go a whole game without saying a word. There are games where I'm talking...
J. J. WATT It's literally, if I'm not working out, I eat the whole time I'm not working out. It'...
J. J. WATT It's pretty neat to be able to help the team in different ways.
J. J. WATT Cooking and baking is both physical and mental therapy.
MARY BERRY My inner critic who had begun piping up about how hopeless I was and how I didn't know to write.
MARY GARDEN I decided to write about the myths of divorce.
MARY GARDEN I deleted all the games from my computer. I spent days trawling the Internet. I started slowly.
MARY GARDEN If you really want to write, then shut yourself in a room, close the door, and WRITE. If you don'...
MARY GARDEN Reading Stephen King's book, On Writing, was like being cornered and forced to have a long, draw...
MARY GARDEN My biggest excuse to others and myself was that I had writer's block, as if it was some kind of ...
MARY GARDEN In the back of my mind was the constant hankering, almost yearning, to write but something always st...
MARY GARDEN Krishna children were taught that in the spiritual world there were no parents, only souls and hence...
MARY GARDEN I was a new devotee of Eastern mysticism and even though I did not join that particular group, I cou...
MARY GARDEN For a long period in my life - it lasted about 10 years - I had writer's block.
MARY GARDEN In the early 1930s, flying from England to Australia was the longest flight in the world. It was con...
MARY GARDEN A wonderful emotion to get things moving when one is stuck is anger. It was anger more than anything...
MARY GARDEN My block was due to two overlapping factors: laziness and lack of discipline.
MARY GARDEN It was not uncommon for the children to be told they were being treated this way because it was thei...
MARY GARDEN Research on child abuse suggests that religious beliefs can foster, encourage, and justify the abuse...
MARY GARDEN Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated.
MARY SHELLEY If God had not intended that Women shou'd use their Reason, He wou'd not have given them any...
MARY ASTELL I long for my garden to be complete. Working in it is one of my joys, but it will never be finished ...
MARY QUANT Stop the habit of wishful thinking and start the habit of thoughtful wishes.
MARY MARTIN When people suffer, their relationships usually suffer as well. Period. And we all suffer because, a...
MARY KARR Nothing you become will disappoint me; I have no preconception that I'd like to see you be or do. I ...
MARY HASKELL There are no absolutes in this world, and there will always be mistakes that are made within brokera...
MARY SCHAPIRO When I opened my first shop, city gents were still carrying tightly furled umbrellas and wearing bow...
MARY QUANT I have a theory of living on the boundary: on the boundary of patriarchy and the boundary of differe...
MARY DALY Having children is the greatest thing that can happen to you as a husband and wife. They are infuria...
MARY BERRY I wasn't the brightest button in the class at school, but I enjoyed cooking and baking. I wasn&#...
MARY BERRY I usually wear only a bit of pink lippy, but for TV, they add a few extra lashes to brighten my eyes...
MARY BERRY To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary natu...
MARY WEBB In my end is my beginning.
MARY STUART You can figure out who you were by which movies you loved when.
MARY SCHMICH 'The Hunger Games' isn't for everybody. But neither is 'Anna Karenina.'
MARY SCHMICH For some Chicago expats, food is the medicine that blunts the pain of separation.
MARY SCHMICH TV happens. And once it's happened, it's gone. When it's gone, you move on, no tears, no...
MARY SCHMICH The first gay person I ever met was surely not the first gay person I ever met.
MARY SCHMICH The movies we love and admire are to some extent a function of who we are when we see them.
MARY SCHMICH You can map your life through your favorite movies, and no two people's maps will be the same.
MARY SCHMICH Don't be reckless with other people's hearts, don't put up with those who are reckless w...
MARY SCHMICH In twenty years you'll look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you can't grasp n...
MARY SCHMICH Like many women my age, I am 28 years old.
MARY SCHMICH Every day each of us wakes up, reaches into drawers and closets, pulls out a costume for the day and...
MARY SCHMICH On an average day, we allow ourselves the fiction that we own a piece of our workplace. That's p...
MARY SCHMICH I couldn't have foreseen all the good things that have followed my mother's death. The renew...
MARY SCHMICH Don't expect anyone else to support you. Maybe you'll have a trust fund. Maybe you'll ha...
MARY SCHMICH Understand that friends come and go, but with a precious few you should hold on. The older you get, ...
MARY SCHMICH Opening day. All you have to do is say the words and you feel the shutters thrown wide, the room air...
MARY SCHMICH Dad thought something very fishy was going on when, at 22, I was offered a job for £1,000 a ye...
MARY BERRY Campaigning in Wyoming is politics at its most retail level. It's done one voter at a time.
MARY CHENEY One of our most promising technologies is Super Cruise, which is the working name for an innovative ...
MARY BARRA I was always nervous before a television show, and I still am now. But 'The Great British Bake O...
MARY BERRY When you look at the truck market in North America, you have to understand the customer, and that...
MARY BARRA If you are buying a larger turkey than usual, make sure it will fit in the oven.
MARY BERRY I mainly cook British food with a few things I've had on my holidays. I went to the Canary Islan...
MARY BERRY Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. J...
MARY BUCKLEY The test of man is how well he is able to feel about what he thinks. The test of a woman is how we...
MARY MCDOWELL Liberty, as it is concieved by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift ...
MARY MCCARTY