A lot of people are singing about how screwed up the world is, and I don’t think that everybody wants to hear about that all the time.
MARIAH CAREYOnce I was a prisoner lost inside myself with the world surrounding me, wandering through the misery, but now I am free. Free to love, free to laugh, free to soar, free to shine, free to give.
More Mariah Carey Quotes
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I’m proud of what I am and who I am, and I’m just going to be myself.
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I work myself into the ground. But I think I’m a nice friend and a good person, and I try to do my work as best I can.
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I look around and see the things I have, and I remember not having them. That is one thing that keeps me grounded. I’m definitely the same person I was. I never lose me, I never lose the real person.
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when you feel like hope is gone, look inside you and be strong and you’ll finally see the truth- that hero lies in you.
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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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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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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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We’ve been expected to be perfect but we aren’t. We’re still human.
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You can fight against people, and fight to the death, but can’t control the world.
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I am thinking of you in my sleepless solitude tonight.
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I don’t think anyone knows as much about what’s right for me as I do.
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True diva could not live without smart remark every now and then, a good sip of water.
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I definitely feel more complete than before. There’s a void you have when you don’t feel you’ve found the other part of who you are, so I’m in a different place now and that’s nice to experience.
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If two people want to get married, it’s their prerogative – we hope. Everybody should be able to do what they want to do and be in the pursuit of happiness.
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I’m not one of those people that goes into details of my personal life on national TV to get attention. Some things are better left unsaid.
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There’s an answer, if you reach into your soul, and the sorrow that you know will melt away.
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It’s in my genes. My mother was an opera singer. I’m clearly dramatic.
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Something in your eyes captured my soul, and every night I see you in my dreams. You’re all I know. I can’t let go.
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When I saw you, when I saw you I could not breathe, I fell so deep. When I saw you, when I saw you I’d never be, I’d never be the same.
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One doesn’t remain a teenager forever.
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If you see me as just the princess then you misunderstand who I am and what I have been through.
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In this world, I call the shots and I think I know best.
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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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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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Basically, I started singing when I started talking. Music has just been my saving grace my whole life.
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I’ve seen the real extreme diva behaviour and I don’t think that’s who I am.
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