Top 100 Mariah Carey Quotes
#1. Sipping Bailey's Cream by the stereo, trying to find relief on the radio. I'm suppressing the tears.
Mariah Carey
#2. 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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#3. I've been working on my craft for a long time. People never want to let go of the whole 'Glitter,' ... I'm like, 'It's eight years later, people. Let's move on.
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#4. I am thinking of you in my sleepless solitude tonight.
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#5. The minute I started addressing my feelings, I actually came out of very negative situations.
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#6. There's a hero, If you look inside your heart
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#7. I want to collaborate with me 'cause I've done so many collaborations that after a certain point unless you're really working with a certain caliber of an artist, there's no point [to collaborate].
Mariah Carey
#8. See, I'm looking for a man that'll rub me slow, make me sing real high when he goes down low.
Mariah Carey
#9. 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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#10. I am very insecure about my looks, and I always have been because of being mixed race.
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#11. I prayed very hard for this to happen and it happened. I don't even think about what I've achieved, I haven't focused on it and I wish I had, because I really want to enjoy it, and I don't know if I am enjoying it, because I am going through my life like a bulldozer. I still haven't marvelled at it.
Mariah Carey
#12. 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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#13. If you believe in yourself enough and know what you want, you're gonna make it happen.
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#14. 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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#15. I'm the queen of festivities, that's all I can say.
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#16. Never, never listen to anybody that try to discourage you.
Mariah Carey
#17. 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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#18. 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.
Mariah Carey
#19. Apparently I don't do stairs, I won't walk on carpet and I refuse to walk on grass. How do I do to get around, hover?
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#20. So when you feel like hope is gone,
look inside you and be strong,
and you'll finally see the truth -
that a hero lies in you.
Mariah Carey
#21. Sometimes it's tough because I've got to sleep 15 hours to sing the way I want to. It's not easy because my vocal chords are different than most people's.
Mariah Carey
#22. 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.
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#23. It seems as though I've always been,somebody outside looking in,well, here I am for all of them to bleed,but they can't take my heart from me,and they can't bring me to my knees,they'll never know the real me.
Mariah Carey
#24. 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.
Mariah Carey
#25. It's a long road when you face the world alone, when no one reaches out a hand for you to hold. You can find love if you search within your soul, and the emptiness you felt will disappear.
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#26. Don't you know that you're blowing my mind? What you do to me I can't describe. Baby, I can't hold back anymore. I just can't conceal it. You're the one I really adore.
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#27. I don't think anyone knows as much about what's right for me as I do.
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#28. Whatever you're going through in your life, don't ever give up.
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#29. There's an answer, if you reach into your soul, and the sorrow that you know will melt away.
Mariah Carey
#30. I think one of the reasons I pushed myself so hard and worked so hard is because I never felt special.
Mariah Carey
#31. I can make it through the rain,
I can stand up once again,
on my own, and I know,
that I'm strong enough to mend,
and every time I feel afraid
I hold tighter to my faith,
and I live one more day
and I make it through the rain.
Mariah Carey
#32. It's hard to be someone that people talk about and write about, you know? They don't know me.
Mariah Carey
#33. I've been blessed to live my dream more than half my life, so I want help give that back to someone else.
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#34. I don't want a boyfriend just for the sake of it. I don't trust most people out there. There's too much at risk and I don't need to be a notch on somebody's bedpost. I'll flirt with you all night long, but then it's buh, bye!
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#35. I'd rather be onstage with a pig - a duet with Jennifer Lopez and me just ain't going to happen.
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#36. I just want one day off when I can go swimming and eat ice cream and look at rainbows.
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#37. Never listen to anybody who try to discourage you.
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#38. I'm so thankful that I've received The answer that heaven has sent down to me You treated me kind Sweet destiny And I'll be eternally grateful
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#39. 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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#41. It's in my genes. My mother was an opera singer. I'm clearly dramatic.
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#42. So many I considered, closest to me,turned on a dime and sold me out dutifully,although that knife was chipping away at me,they turned their eyes away and went home to sleep.
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#43. Right now Jack lives with me. Jack is my Jack Russell. I also have a Yorkie named Ginger, but Jack and Ginger can't be in the same place at the same time because she is very jealous. Even if Jack's not in the same state, she would growl if she heard his name.
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#44. You talk to people and they seem really nice and then you read what they write and it's very disillusioning. You have to deal with how people let you down in terms of that. Because I think I'm basically a nice person and I think I'm a real person, and a lot of people aren't.
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#45. We've been expected to be perfect but we aren't. We're still human.
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#46. I'm not a subscriber to walking into large corporate entities that I have to walk into and be waiting in line, because then I have to stand there.
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#47. I'm very hard on myself and I have too many issues.
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#48. I can't wear flat shoes. My feet repel them. I was in agony. My high heels had left my feet bleeding. Laugh all you want, my feet hurt
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#49. 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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#50. Everybody out there, don't ever take anybody for granted, 'cause you never know when you might lose them and you may never get the chance to tell them how you really feel.
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#51. We have to go through certain things in order to appreciate life and learn lessons.
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#52. After every storm, if you look hard enough, a rainbow appears.
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#53. When it comes to lingerie, I know what I'm doing.
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#54. I don't go out much. I'm also not promiscuous. If I went out with everyone the press said I did, I'd never have time to write or sing.
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#55. 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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#57. Heartbroken and in tears over the shocking death of my friend, the incomparable Ms. Whitney Houston. My heartfelt condolences to Whitney's family and to all her millions of fans throughout the world. She will never be forgotten as one of the greatest voices to ever grace the earth.
Mariah Carey
#58. I'm stuck in 7th grade & I just keep getting let back
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#59. I think that for me personally, a lot of my choices have been to do with my own issues of not feeling safe as a child and feeling a sense of stability.
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#61. I don't mind being compared to Whitney, there are people miles worse to be compared to.
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#62. 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.
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#63. Cause there's a light in me that shines brightly. They can try, but they can't take that away from me.
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#64. I'm not great at putting my hair into a bun, but I'll do it if I have to.
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#65. I really haven't paid attention to Madonna since about like 7th or 8th grade when she used to be popular
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#66. 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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#67. I always sang and I always wrote ... it's just having that ambition. You really can't let go of your dreams.
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#68. 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.'
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#69. I didn't have a strong male figure in my life on a day-to-day basis. So I think that whole [marriage] situation, a lot of it stems from a place where I was out there alone as a really and I always felt like the rug could be pulled out from under me.
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#70. Since having the babies, I realize that 90 percent of losing weight is my diet.
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#71. 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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#72. You really just want to know that somebody loves you for you. Sometimes you feel like an ATM machine with a wig on it.
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#73. I understand people want to hold on to their roots.
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#74. 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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#75. Basically, I started singing when I started talking. Music has just been my saving grace my whole life.
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#76. I can still count on one hand the number of men I've slept with.
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#77. My heart has never been broken, I've never broken anyone else's.
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#78. You look at me and see the girl,who lives inside the golden world,but don't believe, that's all there is to see,you'll never know the real me.
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#79. I 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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#80. I'm experimenting with my voice. Every day I do different things with it, and if I feel it's appropriate I do it on the record.
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#81. Losing my mind From this hollow in my heart
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#82. I used to be able to slim down just by exercising more, but that's changed.
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#83. Forget the image, forget the ensemble, forget the rumours, forget the short skirts, the big hair, whatever! I owe this to the fans and I will never forget you so I want to accept this award on behalf of all of you.
Mariah Carey
#84. Once there was a time
when I had jock itch .
It itchedbad. Then it
turned to acne. I chose
Stridex.
'Pig's Valve' - Mariah Carey: The Early Poems
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#85. I'm not for the villains, I'm only for the princesses. I mean it's fun to have Jafar [Aladdin cartoon villain] or whatever; I didn't even remember their names 'cause they're not important to me.
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#86. 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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#88. People are always asking, 'Is everything ok?' Look, I was not depressed, ok? I was just freaking exhausted.
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#89. I love all holiday music. My two favorites would probably be Donny Hathaway's "This Christmas" and Nat King Cole's "The Christmas Song." They epitomize Christmas for me. Those two recordings will never be touched. That's why I've never redone them.
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#90. Father, thanks for reaching out and lovingly,saying that you've always been proud of me,I needed to feel that so desperately,you're always alive inside of me.
Mariah Carey
#91. Being a mother is probably the hardest job in the world. I feel like, in a lot of ways, children come into the world to teach us.
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#92. If you believe within your soul, just hold on tight and don't let go! You can make it, make it happen
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#93. 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!
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#94. 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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#95. 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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#96. I have memories of Australia that I'll just never ever get over
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#97. 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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#99. Standing alone,eager to just believe,it's good enough to be what you really are,but in your heart,uncertainty forever lies,and you'll always be,somewhere on the outside.
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#100. In this world, I call the shots and I think I know best.
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