R. Kelly Quotes
My music has shaken hands with the world somehow - it's a beautiful disease, and I'm glad I got it.
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A reciprocal of a fraction is found by flipping it upside down. If you want the reciprocal of a mixed number or a whole number, just convert it to an improper fraction, and then flip it!
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I could go out to five parties a day if I wanted to. I don't. I have attachments to my wife and kids - and about 20 pieces of art.
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I reach my readers regardless of what the critics have written.
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Without knowing about flexibility, one cannot work out strategies to deal with the enemy and prepare for changes, and without knowing about the foundation of one's own culture, one would be contemptuous of the Confucian ethical codes.
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I don't think any actor can be satisfied. I am still in the learning phase and hope I am always in the learning frame of mind in acting or in anything else that I do. That's what makes life interesting and worth living.
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I think watching Channing Tatum caress his Lego Oscar statue will be something I won't forget. Even if I try.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
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My father's name is Dee, so when I was born they named me Katherine Dee and they took the K from Katherine and put it with his name, sort of to give me my dad's namesake. But it's hysterical how often it gets misspelled. I used to be like, 'No one capitalizes my D!'
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We all have our strengths and our failings.
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Well, after the divorce, I went home and turned all the lights on!
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One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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Five sets is a kind of lottery. Anything can happen.
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The final phone call that said we're going to be picked up again was just a miracle. We've overcome the impossible and we're still pushing forward. I know John is smiling and so happy that he gets to watch us on TV.
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I call tennis the McDonald's of sport - you go in, they make a quick buck out of you, and you're out.
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If I was to keep playing, I had to play in Detroit, and it just wasn't for me anymore.
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They should be shot. (on the Backstreet Boys)
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In the workplace, many people become helicopter managers, hovering over their employees in a well-intentioned but ill-fated attempt to provide support. These are givers gone awry - people so desperate to help others that they develop a white knight complex and end up causing harm instead.
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I maintain music is not here to make us forget about life. It's also here to teach us about life: the fact that everything starts and ends, the fact that every sound is in danger of disappearing, the fact that everything is connected - the fact that we live and we die.
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The last time money left the art world, intrepid types maxed out their credit cards and opened galleries, and a few of them have become the best in the world.
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The world needs a new global architecture, additional layers of governance, to deal with issues that neither nations nor traditional forms of intergovernmental organizations can cope with.
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My music has shaken hands with the world somehow - it's a beautiful disease, and I'm glad I got it.
