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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Peoples do not defy repression and death, nor do they remain for nights on end protesting energetically, just because of merely formal matters.
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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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Trains are all the ways you miss each other-wrong train, wrong tracks, wrong time.
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Only mankind Can do the impossible: He can distinguish, He chooses and judges, He can give permanence To the moment.
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The grass is always greener on the other side - until you get there and see it's AstroTurf. Symbols are never reality. Someone might have amassed material success and fame, but that doesn't mean they're happy. So, don't go judging a person's life by the cover.
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Art, like real estate, is half science, half gut. We go to a lot of art fairs. We have two full-time art experts who help me make all the decisions about how to build the corporate and personal collection and what we put in our developments. We don't let interior designers pick art for us.
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I don't know about hiding away, but I really only like to present myself when I'm working on something - it's more my work I like to present to the world rather than myself.
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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!'
