R. Kelly Quotes
I've had money thrown onstage, dollars, couple of five-dollar bills. I took the money, but it wasn't much.
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I just got to hear every note. After I left Birdland, I started working at the Jazz Gallery. In the end, I still couldn't play, but I knew how to listen. I was probably the world's best listener.
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I've said it before, and I'll say it again. I've written 29 damn plays. Isn't that enough?
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I tried to play rugby but was never very good.
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The cast of 'Lemonade Mouth' was picked so perfectly. A lot of people see us as a band on camera, but not a lot of people know that Lemonade Mouth was a band off-camera, too.
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Please know that being 80 is not a scary thing. When you're 80, your life is much freer.
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California has the highest number of illegal immigrants residing in its borders. The estimated number of illegal alien residents in California was about 2.2 million, or nearly 32 percent of the total number of illegal immigrants in the United States.
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In a way, I'm lucky that I was never classically trained and never went to a music college. I'm just from a normal working class family and happened to get obsessed with music as a teenager.
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My issue with campaign finance is 100 percent disclosure. Wear a suit with patches from your big contributors. Depending on the size of the contribution, that's how big the patch should be.
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The trains were the beating heart of the New York graffiti scene.
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I don't think I'm a follower, frankly.
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When you've got kids, you turn into Mom, and that's it.
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Literature at its fullest takes human nature as its theme. That's the kind of writing that interests me.
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I'm fascinated by the way Diane Arbus saw things. She came from this fashion background and then twisted it.
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I'm a musician. I'm not, like, a personality. I've never really pretended to perform that kind of function.
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I love the science-fiction genre because there's always so many endless possibilities! It's a limitless genre and can be fun playing around with otherworldly ideas.
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Growing up, there were TV shows that were very funny but very traditional. Classic things like 'Fawlty Towers,' obviously, and 'Blackadder' were pretty traditionally shot. And then there were the ones that start to break the mold or be really ambitious. The ones that spring particularly to mind would be 'The Young Ones.'
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During the season especially, we take a lot of swings, we play a lot of games, we swing a lot in games, batting practice, all that, so to maintain your shoulder the strongest is one of the key points that we focused on in the offseason.
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I have a couple of girlfriends who've told me some horror stories but I've never had a really terrible kiss before.
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Nothing ought to be said or done which could create the impression that unbiased reconsideration of the most elementary premises of philosophy is a merely academic or historical affair.
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The biggest trading partner of the United States is not West Germany or Japan, it's right here.
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'Drag Race' has become a staple of modern television for the way it skewers expectations and attitudes about gender, much as a show like 'black-ish' works to challenge stereotypes about black families in America.
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I'm definitely not a nerd.
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Everybody wants to write a hit song, but in Nashville people want to write the best song, which was my original intention as a singer/songwriter. ... I left because I could no longer make records that sounded less and less like me. I tried to please people instead of believing in my own strength, until the only thing I could do was walk away.
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I've had money thrown onstage, dollars, couple of five-dollar bills. I took the money, but it wasn't much.
