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 want to live in Kolkata; I don't want to live in Europe - I can't write there. I write in Bengali, and I need to be surrounded by the Bengali language and culture.
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At one time or another, we have all faced the temptation to disconnect by giving someone the silent treatment. After being married to Joel for more than twenty-one years, I have learned that is not the best way to handle a disagreement.
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I thought it was normal to recycle pants and shoes from your older cousins. That was just my way of life. At the end of the month, there was not much food in the refrigerator and you're hoping the first comes so food can come again. You never forget those things.
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You don't have to force your career to happen all at once.
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Historically, royal families have represented an institution. The institution is built on heritage, and is timeless in that sense.
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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.
