#else

Listening is more important than anything else because that's what music is. Somebody is playing something and you're receiving it. It is sending and receiving. ↗

— Carla Bley

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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. ↗

— Mary J. Blige

#breakthrough #came #city #else #every

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. ↗

— Mary J. Blige

#bad #care #does #else #even

I remember a time when all my fans were crying and sad and going through hell. Now, we're trying to uplift each other and accept ourselves for who we are, even if nobody else does. ↗

— Mary J. Blige

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It is living and ceasing to live that are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere. ↗

— Andre Breton

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The man who can smile when things go wrong has thought of someone else he can blame it on. ↗

— Robert Bloch

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Competing in sports has taught me that if I'm not willing to give 120 percent, somebody else will. ↗

— Ron Blomberg

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But I know I have a son who doesn't listen to anything I say and if he hears the same thing from someone else, sometimes it has a little more impact. ↗

— Tony Dungy

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Don't think you are going to go on forever because you are not and begin to plan something that will compensate as you reduce your capacities to leap or turn on this or that or the other, begin thinking of something else. ↗

— Katherine Dunham

#begin #capacities #compensate #else #forever

In the old covenants the people were sprinkled with blood of calves without, in their bodies, to bind them to keep the law; else we were bound to just damnation, for the breaking of it. ↗

— William Tyndale

#blood #bodies #bound #breaking #calves