R. Kelly Quotes
I'm not an A student; I'm not even a B student, but I've gotten a lot better with the reading because of texts. And I can voice-text and say whatever I want to people.
Quotes to Explore
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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
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It's for scientists to lay out the data and lay out what they think, and then it's for the public to make up its own mind. We don't live in a priesthood where some small group imposes its views on other people - that's not the way that science works, and it's not the way a democratic society should work.
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When we go to the store, we bring home more than food - we bring home traces of broader environmental problems. But we can use our shopping carts and dinner plates to help solve some of those problems.
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People know things and have a remarkable capacity to act in their individual immediate interests all the time.
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If Boston charters can be stymied despite their extraordinary success, charters anywhere can be stopped.
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Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity.
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Fashion is something which is non-lasting; it's ephemeral.
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Especially for me, growing up in such a small town in the middle of nowhere, the desire to be away was incredible. I wanted to see new lands, meet new people from the city, and meet people that were in much less fortunate situations than I was, so that I could be more appreciative of my present. At least I had food on the table.
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Man is a microcosm, or a little world, because he is an extract from all the stars and planets of the whole firmament, from the earth and the elements; and so he is their quintessence.
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I'm still coming to terms with what it's like to have people follow your personal life as well as your public life. It gets amusing.
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I think it's important for girls to be confident. Believe in yourself and... everybody's hot.
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He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.
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I think I've learned the difference between the things I can control and the things I can't control. And hopefully, by doing the things I can control well, I'll have more favor in the other category.
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I have been afraid of guns, I have sworn I would never use a gun on another person and so did not need one, and I have wanted to deny the existence of evil.
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Whatever our bedtime was as kids, we could stay up an extra half hour if we were reading. My parents didn't care as long as I was under the spell of a Stephen King or a Douglas Adams. Now I read in bed. I read at work. I read standing in line. It's like, 'Hello, my name is Nathan and I am a reader.'
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We are in a democracy, and I think for all issues, whatever matters that the opposition may have apprehension on, there is a forum, and it is called Parliament.
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Sometimes I'm more stubborn than I am smart.
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We see book-burning as a crime against humanity: it's intolerable because books represent a kind of freedom to us.
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My parents' long and happy marriage was a great ideal to live up to, but a tough one.
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There's a burden of representation that comes into play when there aren't enough representatives of a certain group in popular culture.
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All the things that can happen to an artist regardless of how prepared they are and how smart they are and hard-working they are and attractive - doesn't matter. There's always somebody cuter. There just is.
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One always pulls the trigger out of self-interest and quotes history to avoid responsibility or pangs of conscience.
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Media people should have long noses like an elephant to smell out politicians, mayors, prime ministers and businessmen. We need to know the reality, the good and the bad, not just the appearance.
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I'm not an A student; I'm not even a B student, but I've gotten a lot better with the reading because of texts. And I can voice-text and say whatever I want to people.
