R. Kelly Quotes
No matter how much money I make, no matter how many hit songs. I still perform like a street performer.
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What's true for churches is true for other institutions: the older and more organized they get, the less adaptable they become. That's why the most resilient things in our world - biological life, stock markets, the Internet - are loosely organized.
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We must strive to become good ancestors.
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Fun is carefree. I am not carefree.
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Inspired by Alex Haley's 'Roots,' at the age of 11 I began a handwritten Middle Passage story called 'Lawdy, Lawdy, Make Us Free.' I was raised by civil rights activists with a very strong sense of racial history and consciousness.
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I like to see a good scientific bout by men who know the use of their hands but would rather walk twenty miles than see animals in strife.
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Americans are really obsessed with their teeth being white and straight, aren't they? I saw this little girl the other day with one of those whole head braces. Elastic all the way around! How traumatizing for a child to have to wear one of those! You look like a monster.
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I have been Fat Joe since I was a kid. It's always been my name and always will be.
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I have been fortunate to experience a wide range of characters. What more can an actor ask for?
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Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.
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When I was being brought up, we weren't allowed to wallow in self-pity, which was a thoroughly good thing. We were all fine and healthy because that was what we were told to be.
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I don't think I can play Mr. Bachchan.
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Nocebos often cause a physical effect, but it's not a physically produced effect. What's the cause? In many cases, it's an unanswered question.
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'Jurassic Park' has a lot of science in it - and a lot of it is wrong - but if it was all accurate, it would be a documentary.
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When I went to college, I discovered the Sega console, and 'Sonic the Hedgehog' became very dear to me.
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If I could travel back in time, I'd bring back the entire Wu-Tang Clan.
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I am sometimes sad when I hear the personal stories of Tibetan refugees who have been tortured or beaten. Some irritation, some anger comes. But it never lasts long. I always try to think at a deeper level, to find ways to console.
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I believe myself to possess a most singular combination of qualities exactly fitted to make me pre-eminently a discoverer of the hidden realities of nature.
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We want to get to a point where anything you can think of finding that is video related is searchable or recommended to you on YouTube.
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I've found that if you just try to make the film you want, you'll find the right audience. If you try to please everyone, you're going to make really boring films.
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We tried to provide more for the poor and produced more poor instead. We tried to remove the barriers to escape poverty, and inadvertently built a trap.
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You cannot reduce the power of story with the tag of money because it's not a share market. So you must know the seriousness of the power of storytelling.
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You've been entrusted with a lot of money and a lot of careers, and a lot of people put their faith in me, and every director goes through that every time.
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When I was younger we had a grape arbor, and my mom would go out and pick grapes and make grape jam in the sink - boil it, put it in jars, and give it away as gifts.
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No matter how much money I make, no matter how many hit songs. I still perform like a street performer.
