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Like everything else, we know the futility of money only when we have more than enough of it.


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GEORGE R. R. MARTIN It's like these ideas, these characters, kind of bubble up inside me, and one day they're no...
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GEORGE R. R. MARTIN With a book I am the writer and I am also the director and I'm all of the actors and I'm the...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN A friend of mine tells that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN I never liked Gandalf the White as much as Gandalf the Grey, and I never liked him coming back. I th...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN The success that the Tolkien books had redefined modern fantasy.
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN If you go all the way back, I've always written science-fiction, I've always written fantasy...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I have many books that I want to write; I'd like to think that I'll be around for another 20...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN If I was a soldier going to war, I'd be pretty scared the night before a battle. It's a scar...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Of course it's not enough to be a good man to be an effective ruler and it never has been.
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I only feel sorry for weak people. And mostly what I've come to find is that the weak people are...
R. KELLY I have Marvin Gaye's driver's license. His wife sent it to me, because she really loved my &...
R. KELLY I started to wear the sunglasses all the time at school, hiding behind them... I'd walk down the...
R. KELLY I'm very responsible. And with ability you have to have responsibility. I'm not perfect. But...
R. KELLY When you hear romantic music, it makes you want to take your girl out to dinner or buy her something...
R. KELLY Not only did I get an A in music but I got an A in ladies.
R. KELLY If I'm going to be a leader then I have to go places that other people are afraid to go to. That...
R. KELLY You know, I'm no different from a fireman. You got to run into a fire no matter how big the blaz...
R. KELLY I still feel like I'm alone at times - even if I'm in the midst of a million people. Because...
R. KELLY In life, you have people that love to party. That's me. People that love God. That's me. Peo...
R. KELLY I learnt a whole lot from my mother. About music, relationships, being a good person, loving people,...
R. KELLY I'm no angel, but I'm no monster, either.
R. KELLY I try to write life and not songs. People live life, and when you write life, you're going to me...
R. KELLY Love has never failed. It has won every battle. And today and forever more it will go on undefeated....
R. KELLY You're younger, you might want to go to clubs and kick it, but as you get older, you start seein...
R. KELLY Downstairs in my house, I have a museum room. I keep all of my awards down there, and childhood phot...
R. KELLY Well, I believe that the depth of your struggle can determine the height of your success. I was insp...
R. KELLY My greatest competition is, well, me.
R. KELLY I've programmed myself musically to come up with love-feeling tracks that are romantic, sexy, bu...
R. KELLY Once I started singing, I didn't have to try to be cool. I was just one of the coolest guys arou...
R. KELLY I walk around every day with a radio playing constantly in my head, and this radio station plays a l...
R. KELLY I will always do R. Kelly - I'm not perfect, but I'm perfectly me.
R. KELLY I'm the Ali of today. I'm the Marvin Gaye of today. I'm the Bob Marley of today. I'm...
R. KELLY Wasted time means wasted lives.
R. SHANNON Worldly riches are like nuts; many a tooth is broke in cracking them, but never is the stomach fille...
R. VENNING It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily.
R. PALMER Life is too short to learn German.
R. PORSON If you were busy being kind, Before you knew it, you would find You'd soon forget to think 'twas tru...
R. FOREMAN Math is like love -- a simple idea but it can get complicated.
R. DRABEK Beautiful light is born of darkness, so the faith that springs from conflict is often the strongest ...
R. TURNBULL We trample grass, and prize the flowers of May; yet the grass is green when the flower fades away.
R. SOUTHWELL The land too poor for any other crop, is best for raising men.
R. POCOCK When God created the first human beings, God led them around the garden of Eden and said: Look at my...
R. KOHELET Worldly riches are like nuts; many a tooth is broken in cracking them, but never is the stomach fill...
R. VENNING Destiny is for people who are too lazy to create alternate timelines.
R. STEVENS 'Love Letter' reminds me of 'Chocolate Factory' and 'Happy People.' It's...
R. KELLY If you're gonna tell your life story, you gotta be honest, or don't do it.
R. KELLY