R. Kelly Quotes
When you're me, when you're R. Kelly, everybody wants a piece of you, and if you don't give 'em a piece they'll find a way to get a piece of you one way or the other.
Quotes to Explore
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Music is always there, but if you're asking me my first love, it's film.
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It's my job to have ups and downs because it makes good music.
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We want to make sure that we incentivize the health care system to be designed to provide you the best quality health care possible.
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If we don't have God in our life, we're considered dead.
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I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.
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Congress can protect small businesses by providing effective oversight over SBA policies and make sure they take into account the needs of small businesses while also protecting taxpayer dollars. Congress also needs to make sure that new banking regulations do not make it more costly for community banks to lend to small businesses.
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I like big thinkers who, no matter how big their vision, can sit down and talk to me about hour-to-hour, day-to-day type stuff they do to move the ball forward.
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The mistake that straight people made was imposing the monogamous expectation on men. Men were never expected to be monogamous.
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One of the issues I kept saying to my students is you have to learn to interrupt. When you raise your hand at a meeting, by the time they get to you, the point is not germane. So the bottom line is active listening. If you are going to interrupt, you look for opportunities. You have to know what you're talking about.
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I don't like controversy.
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Governments and nations should sit together and resolve issues. Reforms must be reached through understanding. But others should not interfere.
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Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic.
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I was always taken in and out of school.
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I want to give kids that fall-off-the-bed-laughing feeling. Either that, or the sixth-grade feeling that life is hard - sometimes unbearably hard - and it is ultimately about death. But in the meantime, life can be really funny, too.
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I'm really into Greek yogurt, fruit and almonds. Those are my 'go-to' snacks.
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I saw an interview that I did with someone, and I was horrified by it. And I said to my wife, 'This is unbearable how I talk.'
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I wasn't completely comfortable in the footy culture because I wasn't that comfortable in my own skin, which I am now. I'd fit in better now, but I don't miss the training and the injuries you get playing footy.
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The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.
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The idea of modernity is beginning to lose its vitality. It is losing it because modernity is no longer a critical attitude but an accepted, codified convention.
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Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy.
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When you write a play, you work out like a musician on a piece of music. You find all the rhythms and the melody and the harmonies and take them as they come.
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I find often in Hollywood there are many people who play themselves really beautifully. And certain parts are not that dissimilar from who you are as a person.
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When you're me, when you're R. Kelly, everybody wants a piece of you, and if you don't give 'em a piece they'll find a way to get a piece of you one way or the other.
