R. Kelly Quotes
It's amazing to know that 5 years ago I was writing songs in a basement in the ghetto and now I'm writing for Michael Jackson. I'd be a fool not to say it's a dream come true.
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As I've traveled around the country, it has surprised me how many times I've heard people in small businesses use that word 'saved.' I believe many small businesses would not have had access to credit and would not have survived without the $50 billion that we were able to put into the market.
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I love things that people hate. I hate middle-of-the-road stuff. It never really interests me.
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I would love to have some sort of 'Back To The Future' Delorean time machine travel device so I could go back to 1981 to see that very first Jackson 5 concert I went to, back when I was a kid.
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When I'm working in America, I wake up with an American accent and stay with it all day till makeup comes off. I just want everyone to be at ease, and not have the show's creators think, 'Oh my god, he's so English, why did we hire him?'
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It is not empty rhetoric to talk of the Free World.
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I hope that people look at my whole career and appreciate that I've given everything that I've got.
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By asking a novel question that you don't know the answer to, you discover whether you can formulate a way of finding the answer, and you stretch your own mind, and very often you learn something new.
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Humility is the gateway into the grace and the favor of God.
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Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be.
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The E.U. intends to be one of the biggest humanitarian donors on the Syrian crisis.
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Is it written that equality between men and women means one can change sex? Obviously not.
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I make the music my ears want to hear, I wear the clothes my body wants to wear and the ones boys call me back for, and I generally make the songs that my feet dance to.
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We don't go against the will of the people.
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The Amex has a long, often troubled, sometimes glorious history.
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America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for. It will probably be interesting, and it is sure to be large.
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But whether a couple is a man and a woman has everything to do with the meaning of marriage.
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I've decided to recast myself as Utopian. I like this landscape of the M25 and Heathrow. I like airfreight offices and rent-a-car bureaus. I like dual carriageways. When I see a CCTV camera, I know I'm safe.
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When I heard Elvis and his 'Sun Sessions,' I went mad for it. I was about thirteen.
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Why must everybody like you?
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Stay externally focused - on your customers - and focus internally when you have to hire.
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I hear all this, you know, 'Well, this is class warfare, this is whatever.' No. There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own - nobody.
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Let me tell you, hitting 40 is not fun.
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Lionel Richie told me forget about the critics. But if you come back with hit after hit, you don't have to worry about anything.
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It's amazing to know that 5 years ago I was writing songs in a basement in the ghetto and now I'm writing for Michael Jackson. I'd be a fool not to say it's a dream come true.
