Kelis Rogers (Kelis) Quotes

As a black artist in America, you know, it is so segregated as far as the radio goes and how they position music on the radio.

Kelis Rogers

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• Don't let nobody tell you that you can't do it. Love what you do until you don't love it anymore. Nothing's impossible.

  

  Fetty Wap
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Impossible

• Shareholders need to have a real interest in the companies they own. Too many are simply too busy - they are asleep at the wheel.

  

  Nathan Kirsh
  • Real
  • Need
  • Busy

• What inspired me to become an author? I think it was the snow in New York. I looked out the window and I said, 'Well, I have to get dressed every morning to go to teach, but if I write a book, I can stay home in my bathrobe, eat candy corn.'

  

  Patricia Reilly Giff
  • Home
  • Book
  • Morning

• You know those little snow globes that you shake up? I always thought my brain was sort of like that. You know, where you just give it a shake and watch what comes out and shake it again. It's like that.

  

  Gary Larson
  • Up
  • Brain
  • Thought

• There is more to life than increasing its speed.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Life
  • More
  • Speed

• Any organization or any individual that targets civilians and kills them for political agenda is a terrorist organization.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • Political
  • Organization

• The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication.

  

  Harold S. Geneen
  • Success
  • Organization
  • Communication

• Though politics is by nature divisive, surely we all can agree that foster children need stability, safety, education, opportunity - and love.

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • Children
  • Nature
  • Education

• I had an ethnic preference, if you will, for the warm weather, coming from Chennai. So I finally said, 'Look, can I move to California?' because every time I come here, it would be in the 70s or 80s, and there would be beautiful blue sky and warm.

  

  Ram Shriram
  • Time
  • Beautiful
  • Sky

• My journey has been that of a character actor.

  

  Harry Carey, Jr.
  • Character
  • Journey
  • Actor

• I have a terrible fear of travel. Just before we go, I start to panic and tell my wife I don't want to go. It's ridiculous. But actually it's only when it's somewhere I've not been to before.

  

  Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet
  • Fear
  • Wife
  • Travel

• If we want to talk about freedom, we must mean freedom for others as well as ourselves, and we must mean freedom for everyone inside our frontiers as well as outside.

  

  Wendell Willkie
  • Want
  • Freedom
  • Inside

• No one politician should be allowed to judge the guilt, to charge an individual, to judge the guilt of an individual and to execute an individual.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Judge
  • Individual
  • Guilt

• I know I'm not a conventional beauty. You can read a lot of painful things on the Internet, which criticise you aesthetically - but as far as I'm concerned, that's not what an actress is.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Know
  • Beauty
  • Internet

• One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.

  

  Gabrielle Roy
  • Earth
  • Destiny
  • Own

• Investments are a real partnership, with an expected return; donations are a gesture made as a result of ethical, religious, or political passions.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • Real
  • Political
  • Religious

• But I like to think an athlete is an athlete.

  

  Oscar Robertson
  • Think
  • Like
  • Athlete

• The United States Senate wasn't designed to be a majority-rule institution. It was designed to include and accommodate the rights of the minority in small states as well as large states.

  

  Olympia Snowe
  • Small
  • Rights
  • Senate

• I really get that some people like the roots-rock, storytelling thing that I was doing, and I'm proud of that.

  

  Kathleen Edwards
  • People
  • Proud
  • Rock

• Whatever character you play, it gives you the chance to expose another side of yourself that maybe you've never felt comfortable with, or never knew about.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Character
  • Chance
  • Yourself

• I really don't like the way most movies and TV shows are supervised - I hate when there's someone singing over dialogue, songs just thrown in there.

  

  Brian Reitzell
  • Hate
  • Singing

• I grew up singing Mexican music, and that's based on indigenous Mexican rhythms. Mexican music also has an overlay of West African music, based on huapango drums, and it's kind of like a 6/8 time signature, but it really is a very syncopated 6/8. And that's how I attack vocals.

  

  Linda Ronstadt
  • Up
  • Time
  • Music

• I think around the league, I'm getting more respect. And that's great.

  

  Reggie Lewis
  • Great
  • Respect
  • League

• As a black artist in America, you know, it is so segregated as far as the radio goes and how they position music on the radio.

  

  Kelis Rogers
  • Music
  • America
  • Black