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

• And what exactly is a dream and what exactly is a joke.

  

  Syd Barrett Pink Floyd
  • Dream
  • Joke

• There are people that I am in love with, totally in love with them. I would die for them. I love Michelangelo. I love Charlie Chaplin with all my heart. I love Walt Disney. These are the people I am nuts over. These are my people. I love the great ones.

  

  Michael Jackson
  • People
  • Heart
  • Love

• Especially now, with 'Glee,' it's allowed a lot of kids to love music and performing at a young age. All ages watched 'American Idol,' but I think it was nice to be able to show kids, 'Hey, you can be here, too.'

  

  David Archuleta
  • Music
  • Kids
  • American

• Music has charms to soothe a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. I've read that things inanimate have moved, and, as with living souls, have been inform'd, by magic numbers and persuasive sound.

  

  William Congreve
  • Music
  • Soul
  • Magic

• All the others arts are lonely. We paint alone - my picture, my interpretation of the sky. My poem, my novel. But in music - ensemble music, not soloism - we share. No altruism this, for we receive tenfold what we give.

  

  Catherine Drinker Bowen
  • Music
  • Lonely
  • Share

• 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