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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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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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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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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But if you believe in Christ and that your main goal with your life is supposed to be to honor Him and do His will, then you don't have as much pressure as someone who bases all their happiness on whether they're a movie star.
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The really wonderful thing that happened to me when I was in space was this feeling of belonging to the entire universe.
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The philosophy of the school was quite simple - the bright boys specialised in Latin, the not so bright in science and the rest managed with geography or the like.
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It's hard to say, 'I don't believe in God.' I would love to know if God exists. But it's a very difficult thing for me to believe.
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The military is a place of discipline, technical proficiency, and personal sacrifice for the greater good.
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Things forbidden have a secret charm.
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Things can get only so bad. People want to eat, so at some point they resist further cuts to their consumption - it's not a bottomless pit.
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Authority is something from which we are constantly subtracting, of which there remains always a residue, and which we attempt to make smaller and smaller.
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What I discovered in Auschwitz is the human condition, the end point of a great adventure, where the European traveler arrived after his two-thousand-year-old moral and cultural history.
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Now, I've lived long enough to know that race relations are better than they were 10 or 20 or 30 years ago no matter what some folks say. You can see it not just in statistics, you see it in the attitudes of young Americans across the political spectrum. But we're not where we need to be. And all of us have more work to do.
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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.
