R. Kelly Quotes
You don't want R&B singers to get into beef. Leave that to the rappers, let them do that - R&B, be classy.
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The American Revolution as it actually unfolded was so troubling and strange that once the struggle was over, a generation did its best to remove all traces of the truth.
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A great painting is a great painting.
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During the late '20s my father left us. My mother was in a complete hole with no money, and we were evicted.
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I'm a Nietzschean scholar. I've read an immense amount about nihilism and existentialism.
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We had particular policies in this country that resulted in the larger share of poverty that we have in African-American communities.
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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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Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That's what I look for.
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People who don't know me look at my world as something very hard-core, and I don't feel it that way. It's not what attracts me.
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I just didn't know where I fit in - I didn't seem to fit in my parent's generation. I didn't seem to fit in my own generation. Little by little, this took me into a spiritual search for understanding; a search for meaning and fulfillment.
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I don't care who's on the label, because I have a job to do.
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Write something beautiful and honest and that makes you very proud.
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It could be fun to sing with Prince or Michael Jackson. Justin Timberlake has an amazing new sound now.
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What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it.
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I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.
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Because I was a dancer, I started going to auditions for musical theater, which forced me to sing.
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The first job I ever had was singing in a jazz club when I was like 15 with my friend, and we earned like 70 bucks. We were like, 'Oh my God!'
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One of the things that has been very difficult in Libya is the sense of uncertainty - the sense that they haven't actually finished the revolution, that there was still a great deal of uncertainty. That uncertainty has made Libya harder for business in terms of oil and other things as well.
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Time is valuable; people are busy.
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I only want to play my own good sets, that's the only way to make that happen.
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Without putting the brakes on out-of-control campaign contributions from individuals and corporations - it will be business as usual, with 1 percent of Americans pulling the strings.
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When you research prolific songwriters, it is usually later in their career they write songs that they distance themselves from, or it's about other people.
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When I hear people debate the ROI of social media? It makes me remember why so many business fail. Most businesses are not playing the marathon. They're playing the sprint. They're not worried about lifetime value and retention. They're worried about short-term goals.
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What people don't realize is that professionals are sensational because of the fundamentals. The sensationalism has taken over the professionalism.
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You don't want R&B singers to get into beef. Leave that to the rappers, let them do that - R&B, be classy.
