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R. Kelly Quotes

I was the highest-paid street performer, probably, in the history of Chicago. I was making like $800 a day.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: January 8, 1969

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History Day Chicago Street Like

It's almost charity work, what people have done, turning other people on to my music.

Work Music People Charity Done

Dickens's final book, 'The Mystery of Edwin Drood,' forms the jumping-off point for my new novel, 'The Last Dickens'. This last work by Dickens has very little social commentary and a pretty tightly efficient storyline and cast of characters. Not necessarily what we think of when we think what characterizes Dickens.

Work Book Think Mystery New Little

God, life changes faster than you think.

Life God Think You Life Changes

Schools reward their students for a combination of intelligence, perseverance, and hard work - in the classroom and on the playing fields. But these metrics don't help kids understand that great grades are not a pass for a great life.

Life Work Hard Work Perseverance

I don't like singing before noon.

Singing Like Noon Before

By enriching the carbon-dioxide content of the atmosphere from its impoverished pre-industrial levels, human beings have increased the productivity of the entire biosphere - so much so that roughly one out of every seven living things on the planet owes its existence to the marvelous improvement in nature that humans have effected.

Nature Improvement Living Human Out

A person sets out to write a poem for a variety of reasons: to win the heart of his beloved; to express his attitude toward the reality surrounding him, be it a landscape or a state; to capture his state of mind at a given instant; to leave - as he thinks at that moment - a trace on the earth.

Attitude Heart Moment Mind Win

My mother was a schoolteacher and very, very encouraging. She understood what it meant when I said I wanted to be a writer; both me and my brother wrote.

Mother Brother Me Said She Writer

This unusual and highly successful species spends a great deal of time examining his higher motives and an equal amount of time ignoring his fundamental ones.

Great Time Equal Successful Ignoring

Traditional science assumes, for the most part, that an objective observer independent reality exists; the universe, stars, galaxies, sun, moon and earth would still be there if no one was looking.

Stars Science Sun Moon Looking

I like signing books for a living; I do. But you have no idea the panic that sets in. I am not a very good speller. Put me in a stresser situation, and I lose all capacity to recall how to spell the most simple names.

Good Simple I Am Me You Lose

I've learned new footwork patterns that are very unusual. I've learned how to find a lower centre of gravity, and I've found more angles to throw shots.

Find New Gravity More Patterns

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