R. Kelly Quotes
You don't see me in the club. And the reason is because I would rather be in the studio mixing these musical potions. Now sometimes they blow up in my face, and there's a lot of smoke. But that's who I am. Music is what I do.
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I entered Harvard Medical School knowing nothing of research.
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What goes for sex goes double for politics.
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If you're in a dark place, you're there for a reason. And the only way to get through to those kids or to other people going through the same thing is really to meet them in that dark place and then slowly bring them to the light.
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If I must choose between healthy and tasty, I go for the second: having only one life to waste, it might as well be a pleasurable one.
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I loved getting to Chagrin Falls, being by the falls; what a cute place it is.
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I buried Joel on our 48th anniversary. I had been with her since I was 16.
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Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn't very feminine.
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Like Hillary Clinton, I, too, have traveled hundreds of thousands of miles around the globe. But unlike Mrs. Clinton, I know that flying is an activity, not an accomplishment.
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I fantasized being a broadcaster.
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When you can throw 97 miles an hour and put the ball over the plate anytime you want, it's fun.
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As a free-speech advocate, I believe that adults should have access to any material they want. As a parent, and a community member, I think people should be able to protect their homes from imagery - much of it violent - that is, I feel, a form of child abuse when adult society inflicts it upon children.
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The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone's advice.
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When you're a war correspondent, the reader is for you because the reader is saying, 'Gee, I wouldn't want to be doing that.' They're on your side.
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There's nothing I would love more than to host an awards show where I'm nominated for an award - that is so funny to me.
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Working with Jack Albertson was one of my great joys.
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Going to a concert is so overwhelming and the energy is amazing.
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I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
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London 2012 was the biggest thing I will probably ever do, but I didn't realise it at the time!
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To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness.
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If someone asked what kind of music I play, I wouldn't say I'm a folk singer; however, if folk music means music for the people, and playing music to entertain them and share different messages, then sure, I'd like to think that I'm part folk singer.
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Jazz really does try to include everything. It's always been popular music. But the wonderful thing about jazz is its willingness to take chances.
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My driving philosophy about making music is that you can reduce it all down to one note if that note is played with the right kind of sincerity.
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As I get older and I get a few more years experience I become more like Dad, you know, King Lear.
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You don't see me in the club. And the reason is because I would rather be in the studio mixing these musical potions. Now sometimes they blow up in my face, and there's a lot of smoke. But that's who I am. Music is what I do.
