Mariah Carey - Personal Quotes * "My Mom always said 'Don't say if I make it, say WHEN I make it!'"*
* "You don't get a great voice from the color of your skin, you get it from your heart!"* * "The happiness has to come from the inside. You can live in a palace and feel terrible, and as a homeless you can have somebody you love and who loves you."* * "Being in the dark equalizes us all."* * "People thought I was this little girl who was taken care of... The canary in a cage. In a way that's true (but) the cage was half paid for by me.""* * "Never, never listen to anybody, when they try to discourage you; cause' they do that, believe me!"* * "Anytime I get the chance to give back to my fans I do it because without them I wouldn't be here."* * "I'm not one of those inherently skinny people, but I'm naturally pretty muscular. If I ate a lot every night, I'd get fat like anybody else. But if I don't love something, I won't eat it!"* * "Having hits isn't always the most important thing."* * "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."* * "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."* * "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."* * "I don't think anyone knows as much about what's right for me as I do."* * "In this world, I call the shots and I think I know best."* * "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."* * "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."* * "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."* * "If you see me as just the princess then you misunderstand who I am and what I have been through."* * "I don't mind being compared to Whitney, there are people miles worse to be compared to."* *"My heart has never been broken, I've never broken anyone else's."* --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "English Learner's Cafe" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/english_learners?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
