R. Kelly Quotes
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Whenever I say that America has become an empire, someone is sure to say I'm being ridiculous.
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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.
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I don't care what the critics say or think because I care for and love my fans.
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I've been called 'Bruce Lee.' I've been called other less offensive, but equally stupid and racist kind of terms.
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We confuse activity with progress, and that's always dangerous, especially in war.
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Censorship is advertising paid by the government.
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Bowie is a musician, but he works like a painter. Thom always thought that we should aspire to that.
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It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.
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In my opinion it is less shameful for a king to be overcome by force of arms than by bribery.
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Feminism was about making women's lives less constrained and giving them more choices.
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Our forefathers made one mistake. What they should have fought for was representation without taxation.
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I have a pretty fancy facialist, this woman Dale Breault. Getting older, it's a good thing to have a serious facialist.
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As an actor, the first thing you're taught is, 'Don't look into the camera; ignore it.'
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Obviously, for me, story is first and foremost, even in the face of the attractive idea of having all the cast there, or having a great piece of talent come to it.
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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.
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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.
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The real voice is stiller and smaller and seems to know, without confusion, the difference between right and wrong and the subtle delineation between the beautiful and profane. It's not an agitated voice, but ever patient as though it approves a million false starts. The voice I am talking about is a deep water of calming wisdom.
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Parliaments have stopped laughing at woman suffrage, and politicians have begun to dodge! It is the inevitable premonition of coming victory.
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The proposition that humans have mental characteristics wholly absent in non-humans is inconsistent with the theory of evolution.
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I've loved all of my time here.
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My fans have always loved my metaphors.
