Kelis Rogers (Kelis) Quotes
The business of music. You know, it's an oxymoron in a sense. It's like the two things. Although we both need each other, they really don't go together.
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It doesn't matter how much you want. What really matters is how much you want it. The extent and complexity of the problem does not matter was much as does the willingness to solve it.
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I love being a part of country music. I love going out and... doing things for the first time for country music. I always enjoy that.
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To be honest, once you've driven around for about five, 10 laps, you don't notice a difference.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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On the night of the winter solstice, when the dead get their annual reprieve, they go up to the 24-hour donut shop and wedding chapel to get hitched. Marriage is a good and proper pursuit for dead people. For a while, it relieves the dark, shuddering loneliness of the afterlife.
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We need leaders who will stand unapologetically in defense of marriage.
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Individuals should think about the worst-case scenarios and plan for them. The world will be crazier than you think it will be. Put money away, and then you can live with much more freedom.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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One of the things I love about acting is that I can enter into these other people's lives. But going back to being me at the end of the day is very important, too. That process of remembering who I am.
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Why would Senator Allen want to oppose saving money for the state? It's simply another example of Republicans fighting the governor tooth and nail against any measure where she might be able to turn the state's budget around.
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I am not a name-dropper. I can't help it if everybody I know is famous.
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We decided we don't use the term 'fat' for me. We use the term 'juicy' for me. My wife's fine with it, but the rule is when I'm over double her weight, it's over.
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I just grew up watching a lot of movies. I'm attracted to this genre and that genre, this type of story, and that type of story. As I watch movies I make some version of it in my head that isn't quite what I'm seeing - taking the things I like and mixing them with stuff I've never seen before.
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Adulthood is not a goal. It's not seen as a gift.
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I often get ideas for songs on the tour bus at odd times. Like at 6am when no one is around, I'd just write.
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Music has a tremendous effect on me. When it's playing, I can't think or do anything other than listen. But I can write to it.
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Very old fashioned to say that they will be well behaved but I think it's very important.
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In terms of my career, I am glad about the steps and moves that I have made. Because I would not want to blame anyone else but myself if anything goes wrong.
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I want to work with intelligent people and look for scripts that I think are intelligent and surprising.
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The first time that you escape from home or the small town that you live in - there's a reason a small town is called a small town: It's because not many people want to live there.
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Quality is everything to me, and I perfect everything I do.
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Justice does not require that men must stand idly by while others destroy the basis of their existence.
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Do not judge yourself harshly. Without mercy for ourselves we cannot love the world.
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The business of music. You know, it's an oxymoron in a sense. It's like the two things. Although we both need each other, they really don't go together.
