The reason he could do none of the necessary things to take care of himself, on the few occasions when he thought of them, was that he was preoccupied elsewhere.


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When I met Michael Jordan on a basketball court at an athletic club - we hooped together in Chicago ...
R. KELLY
They say marriage will change you but it didn't change me. Being in love changed me.
R. KELLY
Day drinking with a broken heart
is like selling loose Cuban cigars like Newports,
tryna...
FRIDA R.
The only good ideas are the ones I can take credit for.
R. STEVENS
Don't get yourself arrested and make your day worse! If you need to vent, just smash something that'...
R. STEVENS
Wasting sarcasm is a sin.
R. STEVENS
Why is it OK to love without a reason, but anger requires justification?
R. STEVENS
I'm NOT short. I prefer to think there is simply more space above my head for word balloons full of ...
R. STEVENS
Ever heard Victoria's REAL secret? Too much support hurts.
R. STEVENS
Biggie was a lyrical genius: he was a musical painter with words. As he rapped, you would see the pi...
R. KELLY
I wouldn't mind dying - it's the business of having to stay dead that scares the shit out of me.
R. GEIS
I started calling myself the Pied Piper, when I started using the flute sound in my music.
R. KELLY
I believe the work of art should change the existing visual, intellectual and aesthetical sense and ...
GOPAKUMAR R
I am not a traditionalist, questioning the social condition of the society. To achieve this, I use V...
GOPAKUMAR R
'Trapped In The Closet' lives in a place on the earth on its own. It pays its own rent, it&#...
R. KELLY
'Trapped in the Closet' is pretty much forever. I've got a leash on this thing now. I...
R. KELLY
I have always been infatuated with country music.
R. KELLY
I have always been infatuated with country music. Country music tells stories, and I've always l...
R. KELLY
Sin will take you farther than you want to go, keep you longer than you want to stay, and cost you m...
R ZACCHARIAS
As a businessman, I saw club tracks as a new franchise that could be profitable for years to come. I...
R. KELLY
Everywhere I go, from malls to restaurants to sold-out tours overseas and back, everywhere I've ...
R. KELLY
I slept and I dreamed that life was all joy. I woke and saw that life was but service. I served and ...
R. TAGORE
To be handed a lot of money is to be handed a glass sword, blade first.
R. BACH
Death is life's way of telling you you've been fired.
R. GEIS
& Whenn i Scratch my Nailss Down hisss baqqqq ; yourrr gonnahhh feel it.
JEANETTE R.
Be a froot loop in a world full of cheerios :)
SANDRA R
We are relentless.
We don't compromise grace.
But when we hunt, we're vicious.
FRIDA R.
The person who's made for you is gonna love the good, bad, and ugly parts of you.
FRIDA R.
She falls back like a dead weight. The red hair loosens from the hair band and spreads in the colorf...
PAT R
Other kids could read, other kids could write, other kids could spell, they could do math. I felt li...
R. KELLY
I belive I can fly, I believe I can touch the sky.
R. KELLY
For every quote, there is one that challenges it.
R. ALISTAIR
I started learning everybody's riffs, from Donny Hathaway to Jeffrey Osborne to James Ingram. Th...
R. KELLY
I've called myself the Pied Piper, I've called myself the Weatherman, I've called myself...
R. KELLY
I don't really know the story of the Pied Piper. I don't read stories, first of all. I just ...
R. KELLY
We strive hard for excellence in the music, while striving even harder for change outside the music.
R-SWIFT
I'm in love with music, and I'm pregnant by it. It's like having twins. Or triplets. Or ...
R. KELLY
When I think of musical geniuses, I think of Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, Michael Jackson and Prince....
R. KELLY
Everyone wants the fairy tale, but don’t forget there are dragons in those stories.
R. QUEEN
The world is going crazy, Karl. And when the world is crazy, a sane man is never okay." from The Ber...
R. SHARENOW
A true friend sees your tears of sadness,
And quickly turns them into tears of joy and laughte...
R. BENZADI
Shouting at people keeps you alive, healthy, young, fresh.
PETER CAPALDI
Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.
PETER MARSHALL
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
PETER DRUCKER
The relation between a poet and audience is really insignificant. What matters is the poet is hearin...
PETER DAVISON
If we choose to walk into a forest where a tiger lives, we are taking a chance. If we swim in a rive...
PETER BENCHLEY
There are wars being fought! Who cares what I'm doing on a Saturday night? I'm not even a ce...
PETER DINKLAGE
The candle burns not for us, but for all those whom we failed to rescue from prison, who were shot o...
PETER BENENSON
My relationship to plants becomes closer and closer. They make me quiet; I like to be in their compa...
PETER ZUMTHOR
The celebration... you cannot practice it or anything. It's a moment when the excitement of your...
PETER BONDRA
When I went to get my master's in creative writing at San Francisco State after Grinnell, I join...
PETER COYOTE
To make crime unprofitable, let the government run it.
IRENE PETER