R. Kelly Quotes
I try to write life and not songs. People live life, and when you write life, you're going to mess around and touch somebody's heart, and they'll relate to you and what you're singing about.
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Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.
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We have 200,000 kids a year who drop out of the French school system and have no hope. They become a drag on society.
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I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.
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I realize that things happen for a reason.
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My hunger is always there.
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Beauty at 70 years old isn't the same as beauty at 20 years old, but it is stunning nonetheless.
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A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.
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As a kid, I was always very thin, and I kind of didn't know that I was skinny.
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To be slandered the way I get slandered is really uncalled for, but life goes on.
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I'm not trying to be coy or manipulative or Machiavellian, I want to spark people's imaginations.
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I never thought 'Stairway to Heaven' was a long song. I loved how there was this part and then there was another part that was completely different.
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We must all learn to adjust with our surroundings.
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As I grew up in that world and saw how much it affected her world and how much it affected our childhood, it made me very aware of politics. Of course, I have my own private feelings and thoughts, but I don't care to share them.
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I think the biggest part of a good party is the host and then going around making sure nobody's left alone and knows enough about the people in the room to know who to introduce to whom.
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Any job very well done that has been carried out by a person who is fully dedicated is always a source of inspiration.
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I enjoyed climbing with other people, good friends, but I did quite a lot of solo climbing, too.
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I got as much information as I could, so I wouldn't look stupid, but this is a post 9/11 world and there's only so much you can do with the FBI in terms of research.
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All I ever wanted to do is make music.
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I've always said it's easier for bands to make a hard stance - like, we don't do commercials or whatever, blah blah blah - when you've sold billions of records. It's super-easy to be righteous when you're rich.
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The Telecaster doesn't really sound that good for the kind of rock and roll that a lot of people played.
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My expectations of other people, I double them on myself.
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The mantra of the National Commercial Bank is 'building a better Jamaica.' If this bank is going to be everlastingly successful, it has to take on the ailments of this society.
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In a job negotiation, the implementation of that deal is your success that also causes the company to succeed.
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I try to write life and not songs. People live life, and when you write life, you're going to mess around and touch somebody's heart, and they'll relate to you and what you're singing about.
