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.
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Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited.
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Why should I give you an interview? All you journalists are plagiarists.
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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.
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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.
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I want to make sure the fine-dining restaurant has a clientele who is local as much as tourists and foodies.
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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.
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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.
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Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past.
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I like to give my inhibitions a bath now and then.
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There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.
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If you want to have prosperity here, we really have to see our small businesses able to grow and compete around the world.
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One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality.
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When there's no push back against Islamophobic rhetoric, people see that as tacit endorsement of anti-Islamic rhetoric.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The only real indulgence was buying a house. That was a pretty big step.
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I never thought radio would fizzle out.
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Bob Dylan impresses me about as much as... well, I was gonna say a slug but I like slugs.
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I didn't even want to start acting when I started. At least, I never thought about it.
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South Africa is a whole other world. I went to grade school there and high school in Johannesburg, and before that, my family lived in Kenya in Nairobi where my brother was actually born, and my sister was born in Capetown. I spent the first 10 years of my life in South Africa.
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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.
