R. Kelly Quotes
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Some things are so tragic that you don't know what's funny in it, and some things are so ridiculous you don't know if it's worth talking about it.
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People idealize or reminisce about their 20s, but nobody tells you beforehand that it's hard and unglamorous and often very unpleasant.
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Marginal tax rates are the lowest they've been in generations, and all we can talk about is tax cuts.
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Education for all seems to be the product of a type of distributive justice that is in no way related to the individual.
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While it is clear that we need to make some adjustments to protect Social Security for the long term, it is disingenuous to say that the trust fund is facing a crisis.
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I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don't think I'd have made it any other way.
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OK, magic boy, let's see who you really are.
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I have spent a lot of time listening to people who are serving life sentences and getting to know them and the circumstances of their lives. I have never met anyone serving a long prison sentence who had anything close to what I could call a childhood; instead, the upbringings always - always - involve extreme situations of poverty and abuse.
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The fact is that all of us have only one personality, and we wring it out like a dishtowel. You are what you are.
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Going to Freedom's Watch was a job opportunity that presented itself, so I jumped at it.
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The Strokes are one of my favorite bands... And there's this band called Future Islands that I love.
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I can't hear music. I don't understand it. It's so above and beyond me.
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Whether it was Little League or playing with your brothers or sisters, that was always a problem. If I would lose - because I very rarely lost - then everything would go crazy.
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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
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When people have lost their jobs or are afraid of losing their jobs in the future, they lash out. They want others to know about their fears, their pain.
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I get strangely obsessed about the cleanliness of my house.
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The Tea Party has imparted political energy to common-sense American constitutionalism.
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I'm not the lovable, wonderful, tenderhearted grandfather that you read about in books. I'm grouchy and curmudgeonly, and I have a lot of rules.
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People pushing the idea that everyone can live to be 100 are perpetuating a myth that goes all the way back to the Bible.
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I went home one night and told my dad that an older kid was picking on me. My Dad, a Korean War vet and a Chicago cop for 30 years, told me, 'You better pick up a brick and hit him in the head.' That's when I thought, 'Wow, I'm going to have to start dealing with things in a different way.'
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I try and take the commonplace - and some of it is writ large, like death - take the commonplace and make it universally resonant, revelatory, and beautiful at the same time.
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You have to learn a few things, which you do along the way, but basically, poetry is a matter of the ear. Iambic pentameters or what constitutes a stanza comes naturally - your ears will know.
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In designing the scenery and costumes for any of Shakespeare's plays, the first thing the artist has to settle is the best date for the drama. This should be determined by the general spirit of the play more than by any actual historical references which may occur in it.
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R. Kelly is a thing on TV, but nobody knows Robert and what he's been through.