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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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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When I heard Elvis and his 'Sun Sessions,' I went mad for it. I was about thirteen.
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I never considered myself a movie star, and I didn't want to become a movie star, because as soon as you do, you throw away that possibility of playing character. You really do. All of a sudden you're just an entity, you know?
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Beware, all too often we say what we hear others say. We think what we are told that we think. We see what we are permitted to see. Worse, we see what we are told that we see.
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Let me say this before rain becomes a utility that they can plan and distribute for money. By “they” I mean the people who cannot understand that rain is a festival, who do not appreciate its gratuity, who think that what has no price has no value, that what cannot be sold is not real, so that the only way to make something actual is to place it on the market. The time will come when they will sell you even your rain. At the moment it is still free, and I am in it. I celebrate its gratuity and its meaninglessness.
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I miss Broadway, what little there is on Broadway now.
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If I had a prayer, it would be this: 'God spare me from the desire for love, approval, and appreciation. Amen.'
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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.
