Kelis Rogers (Kelis) Quotes

I'm a multi-platinum recording artist; my passion is food.

Kelis Rogers

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• I've stopped reading about my books on the Internet because it's too hurtful.

  

  Barbara Park
  • Reading
  • Books
  • Internet

• The first 10 years of my life, I lived as 'Matangi.' When I came to England in '86, my first week of school was terrible because I would put my hand up to answer things, and no one would choose me because they couldn't say my name. My auntie came from Europe to visit us, and she was like, 'Just call yourself something else.'

  

  M.I.A.
  • Life
  • Up
  • School

• I did ask Matt Damon for his autograph - and I got a picture, too!

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Picture
  • Got
  • Ask

• A lot of times, I played bass on songs. Gene plays guitar on some songs.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • Guitar
  • Times
  • Bass

• We only have a certain amount of energy for each day. If we use it for the wrong purpose, if we focus on the negative or dwell on whoever hurt us, then we're not going to have the energy we need for the right purposes.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Energy
  • Day
  • Focus

• You learn something out of everything, and you come to realize more than ever that we're all here for a certain space of time, and, and then it's going to be over, and you better make this count.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Time
  • Space
  • Learn

• This country has far more problems than it deserves and far more solutions than it applies.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • Country
  • Problems
  • Solutions

• Well, Freddie Mercury is a really huge rock star in my head. I've always thought he was just so tough and such an amazing entertainer, really a contradiction in many ways as well. So he was incredible.

  

  Karen O
  • Amazing
  • Rock
  • Star

• I always knew there wasn't going to be anybody to help me and emotionally support me, that whatever I did I'd have to do on my own.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Help
  • Support
  • Emotionally

• The first thing I do whenever I go to Thailand is seek out the closest restaurant or stall selling mango-and-sticky rice: it's a little hillock of glutinous rice drenched in lashings of coconut milk and served with fresh mango.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • First
  • Selling
  • Restaurant

• A secret is powerful when it is empty.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Powerful
  • Secret
  • Empty

• As soon as I start reading, drawing comes to me more easily. I find I work in my sketchbooks more. But if I'm working on a new show, my reading completely stops except when I'm on a plane. I take a stack of New Yorkers with me. I feel awful about those stacks of New Yorkers.

  

  Barry McGee
  • Work
  • Reading
  • Start

• I've always been torn between the pure and the social sciences.

  

  Ian Goldin
  • Always
  • Pure
  • Sciences

• The 2012 London Olympic Games fostered a generation of hope. I witnessed women participating for the very first time, representing every nation.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • Time
  • Women
  • Hope

• It's a very hard and competitive business in which you have to fight every day in order to impose yourself.

  

  Karolina Kurkova
  • Business
  • Day
  • Fight

• When one jumps over the edge, one is bound to land somewhere.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Land
  • Over
  • Edge

• As much as you may want to, you can't control what other people say or do; you can only control yourself.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • People
  • May
  • Control

• The principal factors which influenced my life are 1) nonviolent tactics; 2) constitutional means; 3) democratic procedures; 4) respect for human personality; 5) a belief that all people are one.

  

  Bayard Rustin
  • People
  • Life
  • Respect

• I feel like it's the last frontier: the weight thing with women. I think that so many women, like, even myself, I'm so mean to myself about my body sometimes, or I can be judgmental of other people for their bodies. I don't know how to get over it.

  

  Busy Philipps
  • People
  • Women

• I'm many things: I'm a convicted rapist, I'm a hell-raiser, I'm a father, a loving father. I'm a semi-good husband...I'm pretty much a tyrant-titan.

  

  Mike Tyson
  • Father
  • Rapist
  • Tyrant-titan

• She is a 13-year-old girl who shares Amanda's name, and politely explained that she could not give up the website. Why? Because the younger Amanda plans to be president of the United States, and she's going to need the website for her campaign.

  

  Eva Longoria
  • Campaign
  • Website
  • President of the United States

• I'm a sucker for turquoise sea, white beaches and palm trees. I've been to the tropics every year since I could afford it. It's the perfect place to unwind. I can chill out, read, do a bit of yoga.

  

  Bruno Tonioli
  • Perfect
  • Sea
  • Yoga

• I'm a multi-platinum recording artist; my passion is food.

  

  Kelis Rogers
  • Food
  • Passion