R. Kelly Quotes

I want to be able to be a father to my kids, where I've never seen my father, but my kids can see me whenever they want, so that was broken.

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• Ultimately, I'm not the most prolific person, but I've been doing this for a long time, and I keep on putting out music. The only thing that drives music is the people who are making it.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • People
  • Time
  • Music

• Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • God
  • Artist
  • Just

• Why should I give you an interview? All you journalists are plagiarists.

  

  Sam Peckinpah
  • Why
  • You
  • Interview

• I like a little bit of designer, with a bit of vintage and high street mixed in. I love it when you find those one-off key pieces, which end up becoming investment pieces.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Like
  • Find
  • Key

• Reducing carbon emissions is important, but it is shortsighted if not coupled with reducing the toxic emissions from our heart; and that is something spiritual leaders are supposed to teach and something all thinking people, regardless of their beliefs, should practice.

  

  Radhanath Swami
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Important

• I want to make sure the fine-dining restaurant has a clientele who is local as much as tourists and foodies.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Want
  • Sure
  • Restaurant

• Adventure should be 80 percent 'I think this is manageable,' but it's good to have that last 20 percent where you're right outside your comfort zone. Still safe, but outside your comfort zone.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Good
  • Adventure
  • Comfort

• I'm an old-fashioned girl, and I didn't believe in living with people, so I guess I married for the wrong reasons at times.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • People
  • Believe
  • Girl

• A lot of times, we look at jazz in eras. How can we not keep those eras separate and think of the language as one complete continuum? It's all interrelated, and it's all evolutionary.

  

  Aaron Diehl
  • Think
  • Language
  • Jazz

• Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past.

  

  Walker Percy
  • Past
  • Grief
  • Loss

• I like to give my inhibitions a bath now and then.

  

  Oliver Reed
  • Now
  • Now And Then
  • Bath

• There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.

  

  O. Henry
  • American
  • Day
  • Thanksgiving

• If you want to have prosperity here, we really have to see our small businesses able to grow and compete around the world.

  

  Karen Mills
  • World
  • Small
  • Grow

• One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • World
  • Better
  • Laugh

• When there's no push back against Islamophobic rhetoric, people see that as tacit endorsement of anti-Islamic rhetoric.

  

  Ibrahim Hooper
  • People
  • See
  • Islamic

• It doesn't matter if people perceive me as being a little strange. I think overall, even when I am on stage, when people see me, I am setting an example.

  

  Warren Cuccurullo Duran Duran
  • Strange
  • Example
  • Setting

• Jagdish Singh was my basic coach, and he trained me from my very early days in boxing, teaching me the fundamentals of the sport. He was the one who shaped me into a boxer, disciplined me when I required disciplining.

  

  Vijender Singh
  • Me
  • Boxing
  • Early

• Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Thinking
  • Live
  • Day

• The only real indulgence was buying a house. That was a pretty big step.

  

  Calista Flockhart
  • Real
  • Pretty
  • House

• We should have hope because we've earned it. We've worked for it! It's ours.

  

  Maxine Waters
  • Hope

• The conversion of agnostic High Tories to the Anglican church is always rather suspect. It seems too pat and predictable, too clearly a matter of politics rather than faith.

  

  Terry Eagleton
  • Church
  • Matter
  • Conversion

• I was completely surrounded by religion from a young time. I was taught by my father. I engaged in discussions with him and many of these scholars who visited and came around the dining table, the lunch table, and attended many lectures with my dad. And so I learned the apprentice way.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • Time
  • Father
  • Dad

• I didn't want to be the archetypal sponging brother-in-law, so I didn't go into acting when I got to the States. I thought, 'No, I'll go to school and then I'll be an English teacher; that'll be fun.' But I was horrible as a teacher. As hard as I tried, I just couldn't inspire those kids to take an interest in Milton and Shakespeare and Donne.

  

  John Mahoney
  • School
  • Kids
  • Fun

• I want to be able to be a father to my kids, where I've never seen my father, but my kids can see me whenever they want, so that was broken.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Kids
  • Father
  • Want