Kelis Rogers (Kelis) Quotes
Am I R&B because I'm black? Am I pop because I have a song called 'Milkshake'? Or can I just be who the hell I am? Good Lord, people make it seem like we're doing heart transplants here, but we're just making music!
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That's what I love about our music - it'll never be a hit because you can't dance to it.
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Peer pressure is something everyone will face in school. You have to really go by what you think is the right thing to do. Turn to the friends you trust the most when you are put in a compromising situation. If your friends are making the wrong decision, then turn to your parents.
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I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.
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I never did a dirty armpit. You can look dirty, but you can't be dirty.
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Balance is so important in our lives. In our busy world, we can give ourselves balance between thinking and feeling.
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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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I'm trying to live every moment as much as I can.
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People do not lack strength; they lack will.
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A startup is literally just a series of unfortunate events where you failed, failed, failed, and failed until you succeed.
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I procrastinate all morning. That's when I get my office work done and answer e-mails and see what's on the Internet and do laundry.
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If you do not love yourself, well, you cannot do anything well, that's my philosophy.
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As goes California, so goes the rest of the nation.
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There's a tremendous intellectual fervor among independent filmmakers, and that has to be cultivated.
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All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.
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I believe that my parents did wonderful things for us.
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Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.
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Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.
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I used to have the 'Best Of Eddie Murphy' VHS tape that I wore out completely, watching it over and over again. His 'Buckwheat Sings' is, to this day, one of my all-time favorite sketches on the show. I also loved the one where he plays the Tooth Fairy.
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I simply wanted to get through college as quickly as humanly possible. I had no interest in extracurricular activities or anything that required me to be social. I was allergic to people.
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One professor in college told me flat out I wasn't good enough to enter the creative writing program. I saved that letter and promised myself I would send it back to her when my first book came out.
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I always collect images, maybe because I was working with historic material - but even if I were working with contemporary material, I would do the same thing. I keep a kind of index of them while I'm working. I find them incredibly useful, not so much to illustrate a time, but to give some sense of the feeling of a time.
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Thank God for Occupy and thank God for 'The Daily Show,' Colbert and the rising up that's going on around the world.
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I've learned people are watching, so don't do nothing stupid.
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Am I R&B because I'm black? Am I pop because I have a song called 'Milkshake'? Or can I just be who the hell I am? Good Lord, people make it seem like we're doing heart transplants here, but we're just making music!
