Kelis Rogers (Kelis) Quotes
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I've stopped reading about my books on the Internet because it's too hurtful.
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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.'
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I did ask Matt Damon for his autograph - and I got a picture, too!
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A lot of times, I played bass on songs. Gene plays guitar on some songs.
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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.
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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.
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This country has far more problems than it deserves and far more solutions than it applies.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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A secret is powerful when it is empty.
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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.
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I've always been torn between the pure and the social sciences.
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The 2012 London Olympic Games fostered a generation of hope. I witnessed women participating for the very first time, representing every nation.
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It's a very hard and competitive business in which you have to fight every day in order to impose yourself.
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When one jumps over the edge, one is bound to land somewhere.
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As much as you may want to, you can't control what other people say or do; you can only control yourself.
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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.
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I like being a mother. For some people, it's so much work that it can be a burden. But it's not for me, maybe because I had my daughter, Valentina, later on in life, at 41.
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All these niggas that have good music have longevity.
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I've always been able to cook Italian food. That's in my blood because I'm half Sicilian.
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The grand style follows suit with all great passion. It disdains to please, it forgets to persuade. It commands. It wills.
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Wherefore did he [God] create passions within us, pleasures round about us, but that these rightly tempered are the very ingredients of virtue?
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I'm a multi-platinum recording artist; my passion is food.
