Whatever you’re going through in your life, don’t ever give up.
MARIAH CAREYI’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.
More Mariah Carey Quotes
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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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My heart has never been broken, I’ve never broken anyone else’s.
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I know I can be diva-ish sometimes, but I have to be in control. The nature of my life, the nature of what I do, is divadom, it really is.
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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.
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Once 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.
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I still listen to older music a lot more than new singers. I listen to whatever’s on the radio, but when I want to listen to something that moves me I put on a Stevie Wonder record.
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Everyday is a holiday with me.
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I still get nervous sometimes before performing.
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Pregnancy was probably the best and the hardest thing I’ll ever go through. I know for a lot of women, it can be wonderful and relatively easy.
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One doesn’t remain a teenager forever.
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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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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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Basically, I started singing when I started talking. Music has just been my saving grace my whole life.
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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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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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