R. Kelly Quotes
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Some things are so tragic that you don't know what's funny in it, and some things are so ridiculous you don't know if it's worth talking about it.
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People idealize or reminisce about their 20s, but nobody tells you beforehand that it's hard and unglamorous and often very unpleasant.
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Marginal tax rates are the lowest they've been in generations, and all we can talk about is tax cuts.
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Education for all seems to be the product of a type of distributive justice that is in no way related to the individual.
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While it is clear that we need to make some adjustments to protect Social Security for the long term, it is disingenuous to say that the trust fund is facing a crisis.
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I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don't think I'd have made it any other way.
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OK, magic boy, let's see who you really are.
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I have spent a lot of time listening to people who are serving life sentences and getting to know them and the circumstances of their lives. I have never met anyone serving a long prison sentence who had anything close to what I could call a childhood; instead, the upbringings always - always - involve extreme situations of poverty and abuse.
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The fact is that all of us have only one personality, and we wring it out like a dishtowel. You are what you are.
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Going to Freedom's Watch was a job opportunity that presented itself, so I jumped at it.
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I can't hear music. I don't understand it. It's so above and beyond me.
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Whether it was Little League or playing with your brothers or sisters, that was always a problem. If I would lose - because I very rarely lost - then everything would go crazy.
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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
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When people have lost their jobs or are afraid of losing their jobs in the future, they lash out. They want others to know about their fears, their pain.
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I get strangely obsessed about the cleanliness of my house.
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The Tea Party has imparted political energy to common-sense American constitutionalism.
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When you're on stage, the audience becomes your other half. It's the ultimate high you can reach as a musician - an incredible feeling. And no matter where I am it's still the same; there's a reason we call music the universal language.
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I love doing improv. I love comedy. I have always felt this way, even when I was really young.
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A popular government wields a moral force, which is infinitely superior to the physical force that the foreign government could summon to its assistance.
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There's nobody I look up to, really.
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So, if I give any credit, besides giving all credit to God, for being totally healthy, it's just my workout and how much torture I put my body through in the offseason.
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But perhaps this is all to the good. Perhaps it’s best to live with the possibility that around any corner, at any time, may come the person who reminds you of your own capacity to surprise yourself, to put at risk everything that’s dear to you. Who reminds you of the distances we have to bridge to begin to know anything about one another. Who reminds you that what seems to be—even about yourself—may not be. That like him, you need to be forgiven.
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We ask ourselves all kinds of questions, such as why does a peacock have such beautiful feathers, and we may answer that he needs the feathers to impress a female peacock, but then we ask ourselves, and why is there a peacock? And then we ask, why is there anything living? And then we ask, why is there anything at all? And if you tell some advocate of scientism that the answer is a secret, he will go white hot and write a book. But it is a secret. And the experience of living with the secret and thinking about it is in itself a kind of faith.
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R. Kelly is a thing on TV, but nobody knows Robert and what he's been through.
