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 never really took a proper art class in college. I just started reading art magazines and going to galleries. I was really drawn to it.
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I'm not going to sit here now and say 'do this,' or 'do that.' But you must - must - expunge any vestige of racism.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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When I became a mature woman, I put both feet firmly on the side of maturity.
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A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.
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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.
