R. Kelly Quotes
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There is a great deal of pain in life and perhaps the only pain that can be avoided is the pain that comes from trying to avoid pain.
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Films are meant solely to provide entertainment. There are no lessons to be learnt and and inferences to be drawn. Has anyone become dutiful and law abiding after seeing a film that espouses these very virtues? Films can do no more than influence fashion, decor, and hairstyle trends.
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My parents never pushed me to ski race. It was my choice and something I really wanted to do. I would have rebelled if they had pushed me, and I wouldn't have had the same passion.
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Politics is the art of the possible.
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Because I'm in the public eye, I think that I would prefer to date someone regular who isn't in the news all the time, but I think even if you date someone regular, they'll still put it in the news.
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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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I grew up in a house full of books, and we belonged to the Country Lending Service - each month the State Library would send us a parcel of books by train.
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Being on a television series is sort of life-altering on every level.
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I can now say that the more I learnt about Islam, the more tolerant I became.
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Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.
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Exposure to a diversity of disciplines has been exceptionally helpful to me.
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Irish novelist John Banville has a creepy, introverted imagination.
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The hardest thing is the idea. Ideas come from somewhere but as far as we know they come from nowhere.
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On the other hand, all kinds of adventurous schemes to add security checkpoints to subway and bus systems have been circulating since the London attacks. This is nonsense. No one can guaranty 100 percent security.
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I did documentaries for maybe 10 years before I turned to fiction films.
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In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss.
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I was too prissy, too refined, too abstemious, too French to be a good American writer.
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Some people need sequins, others don't.
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A true knowledge of ourselves is knowledge of our power.
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Life is one long struggle between conclusions based on abstract ways of conceiving cases, and opposite conclusions prompted by our instinctive perception of them.
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Just remember that it’s your effort that’s going to really bring it together for you…. You will be happy because you will have then realized and fulfilled the destiny. That little speck, then will have become everything because it will have merged with infinity. It will have merged with the most incredible, most indescribable thing there is!
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I've never really had the opportunity to play something that's a complete departure from me yet.
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I want to be one of the greatest athletes ever to live, not only in track and field, but in all of general sport.
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I will always do R. Kelly – I'm not perfect, but I'm perfectly me.