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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

The moment of inspiration can come from memory, or language, or the imagination, or experience - anything that makes an impression forcibly enough for language to form. ↗

— Carol Ann Duffy

#come #enough #experience #forcibly #form

I think any time you have a workplace that's heavily weighted to men just by the nature of what it is, the same way you can say PR or fashion is heavily occupied by women, there's always going to be a little bit of that sexism. ↗

— Erin Duffy

#any #bit #fashion #going #heavily

Everyone who has sarcoidosis is affected differently. ↗

— Karen Duffy

#differently #everyone #who

I am enormously honored to be one of the spokesmen of the New Age Womens Health Campaign, so you'll be seeing me in public service announcements and public appearances supporting the campaign. ↗

— Karen Duffy

#am #announcements #appearances #campaign #enormously

If you are a married man resident in Cuba, you cannot get a passport to go to the next town without your wife's permission in writing. ↗

— Edward Burnett Tylor

#cuba #get #go #man #married

I'm a child of God. God is my mommy, my daddy. That's the only thing that'll keep my head up. If I don't remember who I am in him, I'm done. ↗

— Mary J. Blige

#child #daddy #done #god #head

Music makes us want to live. You don't know how many times people have told me that they'd been down and depressed and just wanted to die. But then a special song caught their ear and that helped give them renewed strength. That's the power music has. ↗

— Mary J. Blige

#caught #depressed #die #down #ear

I do consider myself part of black history. ↗

— Mary J. Blige

#black history #consider #history #i #i do

I've just been growing right along. It's painful, but it's a great pain, and I like suffering for great results. It's like going to the gym. It hurts really bad at first, but after a couple of months and after that diet, you're looking so hot. ↗

— Mary J. Blige

#along #bad #been #couple #diet