R. Kelly Quotes

There are so many songs in me that haven't been born yet. So I can't call myself a genius, but I never turn away a compliment, and I feel like I'm on my way to that mountain.

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• The entire time I was up shooting 'Suits,' I was running back to my trailer to help get 'Nine Circles' produced. It's a no-brainer for me to keep that part of life alive.

  

  Patrick J. Adams
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• The art of life is to show your hand.

  

  E. V. Lucas
  • Life
  • Art
  • Hand

• Nashville is one of the greatest places for the best songwriters in the world. It's been fantastic to live there and to raise our family there. It's a great town.

  

  Faith Hill
  • World
  • Great
  • Live

• I mean, sometimes when you do a show or a campaign with a designer, you get along with them really well and you become friends. And then, sometimes, people are just a bit... weird.

  

  Lara Stone
  • People
  • Friends
  • Weird

• I worked with the Neville Brothers for 40-some years on the highway, and up and down since I can remember - funk from New Orleans.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Years

• I'm the complete opposite of every clean cut, decent-looking guy you could ever think of. Yet, I have the biggest heart in the world.

  

  AJ McLean
  • World
  • Heart
  • Think

• Perhaps things are not things but words: metaphors, words for other things.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Words
  • Things
  • Other

• I never come away from a film thinking I nailed it.

  

  Sally Hawkins
  • Thinking
  • Never
  • Film

• To try to fix the future is a manifest absurdity.

  

  Iain Sinclair
  • Future
  • Try
  • Fix

• Modesty means admitting the possibility of error, subsuming the self for the good of the whole, remaining open to surprise and the gifts that only failure can bring. There are many ways to practice it. Try taking up golf. Or making your own bagels. Or raising a teenager.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Up
  • Good
  • Practice

• The death of my kid made me a stronger person. There's no end to what I'm willing to do.

  

  Carl Paladino
  • Death
  • End
  • Stronger

• Water for me is so essential, like swimming.

  Nastassja Kinski
  • Me
  • Water
  • Swimming

• We take people to the threshold of religion. Our aim is to induce immediate experience that is beyond the odd, beyond the strange, and beyond the weird. It verges on the wholly other.

  

  Larry Harvey
  • People
  • Experience
  • Religion

• I think I've always been somebody to break rules.

  

  Manish Dayal
  • Think
  • Always
  • Rules

• A liberal to me is one who - and it suits some of the dictionary definitions - is unbeholden to any specific belief or party or group or person, but makes up his or her mind on the basis of the facts and the presentation of those facts at the time. That defines what I am.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Party
  • Belief
  • Facts

• I'm a hybrid, and I kind of like that. Raised by African parents, growing up I lived between Burkina Faso and Stains, a suburb just outside of Paris. In Stains, I had all the cultures in the world on my doorstep, and that opens up your mind.

  

  Jacky Ido
  • Up
  • World
  • Mind

• The crisis of black politics can only be resolved through the development of multiclass, multiracial, progressive political structures.

  

  Manning Marable
  • Political
  • Black
  • Politics

• You look at a horse, and he's such a majestic, beautiful, powerful creature that you can't not be impressed. I love scraping the water off them when I wash them down because you go all round the contours, and its muscle and body, and you just think, 'Ooh, isn't this a magnificent creature.' You're touching it, and it's just solid, carved muscle.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Love
  • Beautiful
  • Water

• Bars are meeting places and places to unwind. But at some point, what is culture unwinding from, and why can't they meet anywhere else?

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Why
  • Culture
  • Bars

• I was so overprotected, I used to think I was as delicate as people said I was.

  

  Natalie Wood
  • People
  • Think
  • Said

• A Reagan appointee, Justice Kennedy is no liberal, as he has shown on issues from affirmative action to corporate campaign spending. But he has repeatedly sided with gay litigants before the court.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Action
  • Justice
  • Gay

• I've been writing since I was really young, so I considered myself a writer for a really long time.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Time
  • Long
  • Writing

• If a piece of genius comes, it comes, and it if doesn't, it doesn't.

  

  Donald Miller
  • Genius
  • Piece

• There are so many songs in me that haven't been born yet. So I can't call myself a genius, but I never turn away a compliment, and I feel like I'm on my way to that mountain.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Myself
  • Mountain
  • Genius