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I started writing poetry when I was six. I had this teacher who didn’t believe the poems I’d bring in were mine because they were dark and sad. But I wrote about what I experienced in my childhood.

Mariah Carey

I think one of the reasons I pushed myself so hard and worked so hard is because I never felt special.
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Feeling Hard Myself Reason Special Thinking Work
I always felt like the rug could be pulled out from under me at anytime. And coming from a racially mixed background, I always felt like I didn’t really fit in anywhere.
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Feeling Myself Race Time
I don’t think anyone knows as much about what’s right for me as I do.
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Myself Right Thinking
It’s not easy that everything you do, everybody has to come in and critique it and give their opinion. Sometimes it does help me and sometimes it hurts me as a person. That’s life. I have feelings.
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Criticism Easy Feeling Help Hurt Life Myself Opinion Person
My heart has never been broken, I’ve never broken anyone else’s.
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Break Heart Myself
If critics have problems with my personal life, it’s their problem. Anybody with half a brain would realize that it’s the charts that count.
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Brain Count Criticism Head Life Myself Personal Problem
Suffered from alienation,carried the weight on my own,had to be so strong,so I believed,and now I know I’ve succeeded,in finding the place I conceived.
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Carry Myself Place Strong Success Suffering
I know you’re shining down on me from Heaven, like so many friends we’ve lost along the way. And I know eventually we’ll be together, one sweet day.
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Day Friendship Heaven Oneself Shine Sweet Togetherness
I really rebel against authority.
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Authority Myself One Liner Rebel
I do not think I reinvent myself. Wearing my hair differently or changing my style of dress is playing dress-up. I don’t take it too seriously.
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Change Different Hair Invention Myself Serious Style Thinking
Stay triumphant, keep on living. Stay on your toes, get off the ropes. Don’t let ’em ever count you out.
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Count Live Stay Success Yourself
We’ve been expected to be perfect but we aren’t. We’re still human.
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Expectation Human Perfection
The best part of making music, for me, is collaborating and working with new people and fresh sounds and all those things that get people excited to continue in this business that we all love so much.
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Best Business Excitement Music Myself People Sound Work
One day I promised God that if he would give me my voice back I would never smoke again. I got three octaves back after quitting.
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Drugs God Myself Promise Quit Voice
I’m far from perfect. I’m still learning. I overworked myself, and I paid the price. I consider the breakdown a breakthrough. I needed to hit rock bottom. I needed to understand the cost of pushing so hard; fighting so hard against the system.
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Break Cost Hard Time Myself Need Pay Perfection Price Work
Whatever you’re going through in your life, don’t ever give up.
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Give Up Inspirational Life Motivational Yourself

I started writing poetry when I was six. I had this teacher who didn’t believe the poems I’d bring in were mine because they were dark and sad. But I wrote about what I experienced in my childhood.

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I started writing poetry when I was six. I had this teacher who didn’t believe the poems I’d bring in were mine because they were dark and sad. But I wrote about what I experienced in my childhood.

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