R. Kelly Quotes

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• I had to endure the worst time of all in terms of racial discrimination in Hollywood when I first started out. It was inconcievable to American directors and producers that a Mexican woman could have a lead role.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Time
  • American
  • Woman

• I don't care what the critics say or think because I care for and love my fans.

  

  Oksana Baiul
  • Think
  • Fans
  • Say

• I've been called 'Bruce Lee.' I've been called other less offensive, but equally stupid and racist kind of terms.

  

  Randall Park
  • Kind
  • Stupid
  • Offensive

• We confuse activity with progress, and that's always dangerous, especially in war.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • War
  • Always
  • Progress

• Censorship is advertising paid by the government.

  

  Federico Fellini
  • Government
  • Advertising

• Bowie is a musician, but he works like a painter. Thom always thought that we should aspire to that.

  

  Ed O'Brien Radiohead
  • Like
  • Always
  • Thought

• It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Time
  • Voice
  • Silent

• In my opinion it is less shameful for a king to be overcome by force of arms than by bribery.

  

  Sallust
  • Opinion
  • King
  • Overcome

• Feminism was about making women's lives less constrained and giving them more choices.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Women
  • Giving
  • Choices

• Our forefathers made one mistake. What they should have fought for was representation without taxation.

  

  Fletcher Knebel
  • Mistake
  • Without
  • Taxation

• I have a pretty fancy facialist, this woman Dale Breault. Getting older, it's a good thing to have a serious facialist.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Woman

• As an actor, the first thing you're taught is, 'Don't look into the camera; ignore it.'

  

  Yael Grobglas
  • Look
  • Ignore
  • Camera

• As is well known, 'McCarthyism' was an alleged focus of political evil in the 1950s: Accusations of Communist taint, without factual basis; bogus lists of supposed Communists who never existed; failure in the end to produce even one provable Communist or Soviet agent, despite his myriad charges of subversion.

  

  M. Stanton Evans
  • Political
  • Focus
  • Evil

• I maintain the rather old-fashioned view that this is my work and it's in the public arena, but that doesn't entitle everyone to know what happened at home before coming here.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Work
  • Home
  • View

• My mind is constantly creating and searching, but I can't make myself put the right words on paper until I'm ready. Once I'm ready, I'm a focused, disciplined writer who will put in twelve hours a day at the computer, but I also spend a lot of time away from the computer getting to that point.

  

  Tawni O'Dell
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Words

• A hundred struggle and drown in the breakers. One discovers the new world. But rather, ten times rather, die in the surf, heralding the way to that new world, than stand idly on the shore.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • World
  • Die
  • Struggle

• Without siblings you get quite a skewed vision of yourself and of the world. I always felt I didn't understand how it worked. I remember feeling quite lonely.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • World
  • Remember
  • Feeling

• Your former Fathers the Spaniards have now no further Authority over you.

  

  Zebulon Pike
  • You
  • Now
  • Authority

• The biggest challenge of being a pastry chef is that, unlike other types of chefs, you can't throw things together at a farmer's market. When you're working with baking powder and a formula, you have to be exact. If not, things can go wrong.

  

  Carla Hall
  • Together
  • Challenge
  • Farmer

• When I first encountered the 'Sigma Force' novels - long before I became friends with Jim Rollins - a bookseller told me that these stories were about 'geeks with guns.' While not entirely accurate, that's pretty close to the mark, and that really speaks to me.

  

  Jonathan Maberry
  • Long
  • Friends
  • Pretty

• I didn't have an incredibly active social life as a teenager. I always wished it was a little bit more exciting than it was.

  

  Olivia Thirlby
  • Life
  • Always
  • Teenager

• I never wanted to return to Hollywood because Hollywood people and the fakeness - very artificial and not dear to my heart. After I lived in the Midwest, and I learned what sincere, real people were all about, I never wanted to go back.

  

  Karolyn Grimes
  • People
  • Real
  • Heart

• I never watch MTV. I don't have time to watch TV. And when I do, I'm watching the Discovery Channel. 'Deadliest Catch: Crab Fishing in Alaska,' that's my show.

  

  Carly Schroeder
  • Time
  • Discovery
  • Fishing

• My fans have always loved my metaphors.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Always
  • Fans
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