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"50 Mariah Carey Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 27 March 1970 | Musician | Record producer | Actress | Philanthropist |

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.

About Everybody Hear How
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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.

Always Anytime Anywhere Background
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I don't mind being compared to Whitney, there are people miles worse to be compared to.

Being Compared Miles Mind
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I don't think anyone knows as much about what's right for me as I do.

About Anyone Knows Me
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I hope to be around past the 90's. I don't want to just be categorized as one of this era. My goal is to have a career that stands.
Around Career Categorized Era
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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.

Anybody Brain Charts Count
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If you see me as just the princess then you misunderstand who I am and what I have been through.

Am Been IAm Just
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In this world, I call the shots and I think I know best.

Best Call IThink Know
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My heart has never been broken, I've never broken anyone else's.
Anyone Been Broken Else
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It's hard to be someone that people talk about and write about, you know? They don't know me.

About Hard Know Me
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Never, never listen to anybody that try to discourage you.
Anybody Discourage Listen Never
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This is for all of you out there tonight, reaching for a dream - don't ever give up! Never ever listen to anyone, when they try to discourage you, because they do that, believe me!

Anyone Because Believe Discourage
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There is a light at the end of the tunnel... hopefully its not a freight train!

End EndOfTheTunnel Freight Hopefully
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Butterflies are always following me, everywhere I go.

Always Butterflies Everywhere Following
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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.

Attention Better Details Get
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Whatever you're going through in your life, don't ever give up.
Ever Give Going Life
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My mother is Irish, my father is black and Venezuelan, and me - I'm tan, I guess.

Black Father Guess Irish
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Basically, I started singing when I started talking. Music has just been my saving grace my whole life.

Basically Been Grace Just
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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.

After Again Back Day
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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.

Changing Differently Dress Dress-Up
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You really just want to know that somebody loves you for you. Sometimes you feel like an ATM machine with a wig on it.

ATM Feel Just Know
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I'm not vain, I'm insecure.

Insecure Vain
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You really have to look inside yourself and find your own inner strength, and say, 'I'm proud of what I am and who I am, and I'm just going to be myself.'

Am Find Going IAm
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I understand people want to hold on to their roots.

Hold People Roots Understand
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I try not to be a jerk. I really do. I try to be nice and cordial.

BeNice Jerk Nice Really
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I've seen the real extreme diva behaviour and I don't think that's who I am.

Am Behaviour Diva Extreme
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I'm very hard on myself and I have too many issues.
Hard Issues Many 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.

Best Friend Good GoodPerson
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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.

Before Complete Definitely Different
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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.

Best Easy Ever Go
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I used to be able to slim down just by exercising more, but that's changed.

Able Changed Down Exercising
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Since having the babies, I realize that 90 percent of losing weight is my diet.

Babies Diet Having Losing
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People are constantly asking me if I'm pregnant, but I don't like to talk about it too much. I just think about it as the next phase. We'll see.

About Asking Constantly Just
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I've been blessed to live my dream more than half my life, so I want help give that back to someone else.
Back Been Blessed Dream
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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 gets people excited to continue in this business that we all love so much.

Best BestPart Business Collaborating
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I really rebel against authority.

Against Authority Really Rebel
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I've seen other artists put out movies that went straight to DVD, and no one cared. Maybe their own fans bought the thing, and that was fine.

Artists Bought Cared DVD
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People are like, 'What is your whole obsession with butterflies?' I'm like, 'I'm not obsessed. I like them. Can't anybody like something?'

Anybody Butterflies Like Obsessed
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I am very insecure about my looks, and I always have been because of being mixed race.

About Always Am Because
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I think certain people like to torture me because they think I've had it easier than I actually have and they think: 'Oh, she's got this, she's got that, she's always had everything perfect,' and it's sooo not true.

Actually Always Because Certain
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But I think I'm a nice friend and a good person, and I try to do my work as best I can.

Best Friend Good GoodPerson
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Some of us talk about other people and what they do and la la la. But I'm not that person.

About La Other People
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I love the grimiest rappers in the world. That's my favorite.

Favorite ILove Love Rappers
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A lot of rappers don't have to go through what I had to go through as a singer. I was always in a bubble that they put me in, but I was always punching out. It was a tough line to walk.

Always Bubble Go Had
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I don't think there were great beauty trends in the '90s - I was just doing my own thing.
Beauty Doing Great Just
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I really don't do karaoke because it becomes a vocal performance rather than fun, like, 'Let's just sing this song and be silly.' It's not fun for me.

Because Becomes Fun Just
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I'm not Gloria Steinem, but I mean, I'm definitely all for powerful women.

Definitely Mean Powerful Women
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I wrote my own anthem: it's called 'Mariah's Theme.' It's on the 'Rainbow' album from '99. Back in the day.

Album Anthem Back Day
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I arrange flowers in my spare time. Well, when I have spare time, that is.

Arrange Flowers Spare SpareTime
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I'm a very good laundress when I have to be.

Good Very
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Mariah Carey Quotes & Sayings