R. Kelly Quotes
To hear the appreciation, the screams - that's what any of us need. We're at our best when we're wanted.
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I like the diversity that my children are exposed to every day.
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The trouble with making music as a job is that I have no outside interests. All I can do to wind down is go to sleep.
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I'm saying that an editorial process that is preparing the material for publication counts as part of the inspiring process whereby God, in his sovereignty, gave every word.
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The phrase 'mad as a hatter' was coined because hat makers were poisoned by the high levels of mercury used in felt processing; these workers developed a strange, uneven gait as well as strange alterations in their personalities - traits that resembled mental instability.
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I'm such a happy, easygoing person.
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No religion makes more use of color than Hinduism, with its blue-skinned gods and peony-lipped goddesses, and even the spring festival of Holi is focused on color: Boys squirt arcs of dyed water on passersby or dump powder, all violently hued, on their marks.
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Hollywood can be a really tough environment for anyone trying to make a living. Unfortunately for actors of color, namely Asian Americans, opportunities have been and remain substantially limited. One place this is not the case is on 'Hawaii Five-0,' where we have three Asian American series regulars and a landscape rich with diversity.
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The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
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Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.
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People don't understand that all presidents, the minute they become president, get a knock at the door. And there's a man there saying, 'Let's talk about your funeral.' At the time I thought, God, that's a terrible thing. Later on, I thought it was pretty wise.
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We recognized in 1996 that, with progress in the field of genetics accelerating at a breathtaking pace, we need to ensure that advances in treatment and prevention of disease do not constitute a new basis for discrimination.
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Everyone always says, 'When you look at a boy band, one of them has to be gay.' No, they don't.
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Everybody talks. Anthony Pettis talked before the fight. Donald Cerrone talked before the fight. See what happened?
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I am slightly fascinated by the question of whether humanity is capable of change. I may have come to the conclusion that we're not, but we keep trying.
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We have to believe in free-will. We've got no choice.
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We have to still develop the Ikea group. We need many billions of Swiss francs to take on China or Russia.
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In 1993, when I landed in Zimbabwe, there were just 10 psychiatrists in that country of 10 million people. Nine of the 10 were foreigners who spoke no regional language.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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Modesty is my best quality.
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At school, I always felt the art room was the place where you could sit and talk. It was a place of solace. I wasn't the best artist at school by a long shot; it was more the understanding and the support that came from that room.
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Time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.
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I didn't consciously make the decision to write an adult novel. I didn't think of it as my riposte to the YA genre.
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If you look at the beginning of this country, when the pilgrims came to this country, the first year they had a communistic experiment. They said, 'OK, we're going to take the land, we're going to work the land together and share in the fruits of our labor.' They almost starved to death. Almost half of them died that first year.
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To hear the appreciation, the screams - that's what any of us need. We're at our best when we're wanted.
