R. Kelly Quotes
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Dramas make me laugh. The other day, I saw 'The Place Beyond the Pines,' and I was giggling the whole time. I laugh when I'm uncomfortable.
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It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference.
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We have to reappropriate the concept of laicite (secularism) so we can explain to our young pupils that whatever their faith, they belong to this idea, and they're not excluded. Secularism is not something against them; it protects them.
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It is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is.
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I believe in the free enterprise system.
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There are jobs, particularly database-oriented ones, for which computers are necessary, but for everyday office life, I question whether they have brought the productivity that their enormous cost, up to £10,000 per person, demands.
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If people get to the end of the record, then that is a treat.
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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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All the big online retailers are looking at how to enter the Russian market.
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No one goes into the office for fun. You go, and even if you love it, you're there to work.
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Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.
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I go on a good many adventure-type trips. Whenever I go on one, it's always potentially going to be the setting for one of my books. I pay more attention to certain aspects than some other people might. Sometimes I use them, sometimes I don't. Most of the books I write are based on experiences I've had to some extent.
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The truth is that the free movement of goods, people, and money that developed under British hegemony between 1870 and 1913 - the first episode of globalization - was made possible, in large part, by military might rather than market forces.
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What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.
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If I had to choose, I'd choose my friends over my career.
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Some friends are better shots than are casual enemies.
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Maybe one of the only things I do well: I cook like a maniac! I would be a chef if I weren't an actor.
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I love love stories, no matter how dark.
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The evening is really hard for me. I have to force myself not to eat.
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I have always been an avid reader of chemical literature, eager for what is new.
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Red carpet dressing all depends on the climate. I think richer, deeper colours are more flattering on the body, but the opposite is true if you are in Cannes or St. Tropez where the light makes deep colours look heavy and unflattering.
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I don't know if I have a technique. I'm just trying to remember the words.
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I did once seriously think of embracing the Christian faith. The gentle figure of Christ, so full of forgiveness that he taught his followers not to retaliate when abused or struck, but to turn the other cheek - I thought it was a beautiful example of the perfect man.
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I just never, in my career, got into doing a lot of press.
