R. Kelly Quotes
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I never even held a guitar until I was 23 and living in California, but then loved it. I'm really not an accomplished instrumentalist. Maybe that has something to do with why I write and sing.
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Let's talk about Connie Britton, who I love. I don't know of a person who doesn't love her, I don't know a man or woman who doesn't have a crush on her, she's the most fabulous person in the entire world, and she's such an incredible actress, and so sweet, and I love her.
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Everybody has a weakness. Mine is food.
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My mum is black, my dad is white, and when I was a teenager, people would say, 'So what are you? Are you black? Or white? What are you more of?'
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Nothing is absolute in security.
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I can't conceive of cooking in a sunny place like Florida because my motivation comes from the changing seasons. That's why I decided to live in New York.
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Once you are a model, you do have to fly a million red-eye flights, and you do have to entertain a different client every single day.
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The Great War was a progressive revelation and disillusionment.
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In a lot of ways, I wasn't a normal teenager.
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I can now say that the more I learnt about Islam, the more tolerant I became.
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I'm feeling incredibly Botox-tempted as my face collapses around my shoulders.
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I think that's just part of how it is with making art. Sometimes you're just flooded with ideas, and then other times you're questioning all the ideas you ever had before, and everything is just... lame.
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Censorship is advertising paid by the government.
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In some ways, my most comfortable feeling has been that of being an outsider coming in, but over the years I've tired of that and I'm ready to feel at home. That's what music gives me: a feeling of absolute home.
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I got a bike when I was little, a BMX. I called it 'Fido Dido' after the tough little cartoon guy with spiked hair. I thought he was the coolest thing ever.
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When I started out, the idea of comfort in shoes was almost a dirty word.
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My character in 'True Grit' would set these goals for herself that seemed near impossible, but to her they were possible. She was never going to believe anything else other than that.
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My dad was in the movie 'Moonwalker,' and I knew he could sing really well, but I didn't know he could act. I saw that, and I said, 'Wow. I want to be just like him.'
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Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.
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I like music that's more offensive. I like it to sound like nails on a blackboard, get me wild.
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To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.
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Growth is a panacea for many ills in society; not entirely, but many.
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In 1985, I saw a tape of myself where my eyes were puffy. I looked very tired and bedraggled and not as youthful as I would like to have been.
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My greatest competition is, well, me.
