R. Kelly Quotes
There was a time I desperately needed for the world to know that I was no category guy. My whole goal in life was to reach that certain success where people will say, 'Hey, that guy can do anything. He's the Evel Knievel of music. He's jumping over 15 buses!'

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You are rich if and only if money you refuse tastes better than money you accept.
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I live in Derry, a little town in Ireland, and I don't have the background of Hollywood or Broadway.
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If I had a big brother who was a year older than me or something, I probably wouldn't have ended up being a filmmaker.
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Comedians take a neat situation and turn it into a mess. And in my books I do the same thing, but it's the other way around. I like to mess around with mess. A mess is only a mess because someone tells you it is.
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We have to surmount the difficulties that face us and work steadfastly for the happiness and prosperity of our country.
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Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.
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I literally was saved by a role, from becoming a cab driver. I never did have to wait tables, though, so looking back I guess I had it pretty soft.
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There were many years when I was hand-to-mouth and didn't know how I was gonna make rent. I've done every job under the sun, from busing tables, temping, and working in factories to SAT prep and detailing cars. So to be able to make a living where all I do is write is absolutely liberating.
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A true lover always feels in debt to the one he loves.
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How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.
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I love writers. All of my best friends are writers.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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Modesty is my best quality.
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I have been acting since I was thirteen.
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You are the only you. That means you don't lose roles to anybody else. There's no competition, so they either want you or they don't want you, and it's not that they wanted someone else over you.
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Truth never damages a cause that is just.
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There's an energy in an urban core that you just don't get anywhere else.
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I had been impressed by the fact that biological systems were based on molecular machines and that we were learning to design and build these sorts of things.
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Space excites me. My dream is to go to space.
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My Swedish grandmother was the daughter of a dairy farmer who lived near Hedemora. My Swedish grandfather worked as a clerk for the Swedish railways in the Stockholm station.
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I've always been interested in fashion, the clothes, but I'm not that familiar with the fashion industry; for me it just comes out of quite an innocent sense of style.
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For me, baseball is about, again, the team winning.
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The arts are what humanize science and history.
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There was a time I desperately needed for the world to know that I was no category guy. My whole goal in life was to reach that certain success where people will say, 'Hey, that guy can do anything. He's the Evel Knievel of music. He's jumping over 15 buses!'