R. Kelly Quotes
To make an album like 'Love Letter,' everything's got to be about love. Everything has to have a great feeling when you listen to it.
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Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.
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Gossip is when you hear something you like about someone you don't.
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So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
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Our parents all experimented with raising us in a fairly loose, unorthodox way. A huge emphasis was placed on creativity, and our artistic efforts were never dismissed as childish. There was a sense that we - kids and grown-ups - all had the potential to make something of value. Our drawings were not simply destined for the refrigerator.
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Society becomes how we behave.
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A career in showbiz is like a distance run. You have to have patience and pace yourself.
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I feel that after all those horrible reviews and jokes, I wasn't crazy all these years to stand up for the music I believe in. This album has proven that somewhere in the human race, the human heart is still racing and breaking and I am so grateful.
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I did almost two years on 'One Life to Live,' so I was thinking, 'Oh yeah, I'm an actor now.'
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I'm not an atheist. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.
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There are times, especially on 'The Five,' where I've lost control for a moment. I always feel bad about it, but those always seem to be the times that people realize, if I'm mad about something, it must really matter.
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My job isn't to preach to people, it's to entertain them. I like letting the characters speak for themselves.
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Say what you want about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins.
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If you look at any other group of people suffering injustice, women are always in the worst situation within that group.
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I don't worry about the things I can't change.
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I refuse to confide and don't like it when people write about art.
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You get steely nerves playing poker.
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Every time we moved on, I joined a different class in a different school with different girls until, aged 13, my father had taken the decision to pull me out of school altogether. Everything I needed, he reasoned, could be found within the rich language of Shakespeare's plays at which, by then, I was something of an old hand.
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I've met the Dalai Lama briefly, but I would probably say my grandfather was the wisest person I ever met. He was my mother's father, an Indian, a family doctor, and very unlike me in that he was deeply religious.
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The reason why I love to win is because I don't have to go through that feeling of losing. It's those times where I lose that feeling that will stick with me.
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Americans are more likely to watch a film in their own language. For the rest of the world, it doesn't matter so much.
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But you can't kill a demon because they're evil spirits, like a ghost.
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I remember my mom saying that when I was little, I had this light that shined really big, and that she'd watched my light become very dark.
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Known as the biosphere to scientists and as the creation to theologians, all of life together consists of a membrane around earth so thin that it cannot be seen edgewise from a satellite yet so prodigiously diverse that only a tiny fraction of species have been discovered and named.
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To make an album like 'Love Letter,' everything's got to be about love. Everything has to have a great feeling when you listen to it.
