Mariah Carey Quotes

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Mariah Carey

Profession : Musician

Birth : March 27, 1970

It's hard to be someone that people talk about and write about, you know? They don't know me.

Mariah Carey

My mother is Irish, my father is black and Venezuelan, and me - I'm tan, I guess.

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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.

Mariah Carey

My father identified as a black man. No one asked him because he was clearly black. But people always ask me. If we were together, people would look at us in a really strange way. It sucked. As a little girl I had blond hair and they'd look at me, look at him, and be disgusted.

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

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

Mariah Carey

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?'

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

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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.

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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.

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I love the grimiest rappers in the world. That's my favorite.

Mariah Carey

Prince was one of the best people I've met. He didn't care about the big system. I was always like, at any time, Prince could write a No. 1 song because he's that talented, but he chooses to do what he wants. I respect that. He actually helped me through a lot of situations with his knowledge.

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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.

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I'm not Gloria Steinem, but I mean, I'm definitely all for powerful women.

Mariah Carey

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

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