Celebrity Quotes of the Week: Tamar Braxton Is Not Feeling Those Mariah and Ariana Comparisons
Plus, words from Rihanna and Kanye West.
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Tamar Braxton says Ariana Grande is definitely no Mariah Carey: - “I just have my own opinion because everybody says she’s the new Mariah, but I don’t agree with them because Mariah’s my icon. So there’s one Mariah! But Ariana can sing her face off.”(Photos from left: Cooper Neill/Getty Images for MegaFest, Tommaso Boddi/Getty Images for Republic Records)
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Justin Bieber says his tears at the VMAs were 100 percent authentic: - “It was so overwhelming. I missed some cues so I was a bit disappointed about that. But just the support… I didn’t expect them to support me in the way they did… I wanted to win so badly, I just put everything on the line. It was authentic and real… I was just wanting it so bad.”(Photo: Jeff Kravitz/MTV1415/FilmMagic)
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Don’t ever wear Rihanna’s ex’s perfume around her: - "[Scent] is something that connects you to a specific time, a memory, a place, a person. There was even one point where my makeup artist was wearing a perfume I used to wear with an ex. And I was like, 'Don't. I know exactly what you're wearing. Don't wear that tomorrow because I don't want to think about that.'"(Photo: Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images)
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Judge Joe Brown has an interesting perspective on the Freddie Gray trial: - “Justice is served when the citizens participate. That means if you get called for jury service, go ahead and serve without trying to get out of it… I hear people mumbling about justice wasn’t done, but they all wanted to bail when they were called to be on that jury. They’re harping after the fact, but they didn’t use the opportunity to be part of the process.”(Photo: Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images)
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Venus Williams is super proud to have earned her Bachelor’s degree: - "I've learned so much. It was always my dream to have a business degree, and I ended up going to art school so many times, but in the back of my head I felt like I needed the tools to be a better leader, to be a better planner, to be better at all of the things I wanted to do in my businesses because I'm so hands-on.”(Photo: Mike Coppola/Getty Images for AYS)
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Kerry Washington praises Shonda Rhimes’ leadership: - "Shonda invites powerful, intelligent women to be her leads. Her identity as a woman — and the fact that she is a mother — lends to an understanding of people's range of experiences in life.”(Photo: Joe Scarnici/Getty Images for Variety)
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An easy match won’t stop Serena Williams from whooping more butt in the next games: - “No, I don’t think that’s a worry because my practices are really intense, and I fight really hard in my practices. I know that every match is a challenge. I have to be ready for everything.”(Photo: Brad Barket/Getty Images for AYS)
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Kanye West wants you to know that he is running for president in five years: - "It ain’t about me, it’s about new ideas bro, people with ideas, people who believe in truth. And yes, as you probably could’ve guessed by this moment, I have decided in 2020 to run for president.”(Photo: Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images)
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Vanessa Williams is her daughter's (Jillian Hervey of Lion Babe) biggest cheerleader: - "I never said to her, 'Oh, get a real job.'... She’s seen everything — whether it’s Broadway or me in a recording studio or on a television or film set. She knows how hard the work is, she knows the dedication you need to have in order to have success and she knows the ups and downs."(Photo: Larry Busacca/Getty Images for Carmen Marc Valvo)
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Here’s why Tinashe titled her sophomore album Joyride: - “I always had it in the back of my head, but it started to become more and more relevant to my current state of my career. With all this traveling I've done this past year and everything I've gone through, it just really feels like an adventure, a journey, a ride.”(Photo: Frazer Harrison/Getty Images)