Janelle Monae (Janelle Monáe Robinson) Quotes

Honestly, I don't believe in menswear. I focus on what pieces are most timeless, transcendent, match my lifestyle, remain remarkable, and command intriguing attention across the room at an art gallery.

Janelle Monae

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• I'm trying to focus on my job as I see it, which is to write the next thing and to remain, to the degree that I ever was, a noticer.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
  • Trying
  • Job
  • Focus

• If anything, I'm the most hesitant to bring on a label. That terrifies me. I think people believe major labels are linked to success. They're absolutely not that.

  

  Verite
  • People
  • Believe
  • Success

• A company logo may be the last thing cost-conscious CEOs focus on when they're looking to jump-start growth. Which is perhaps why it took more than two decades for White Mountain Footwear, a privately held shoe manufacturer based in Lisbon, N.H., to finally give its own emblem some serious thought.

  

  Tahl Raz
  • Why
  • May
  • Focus

• I wanted to make a film - and I've been wanting to do this for 16 years - about life in care, and bring it to the public's attention, because I had never seen anything, on TV or in the cinema, which said: 'This is how it feels to be a kid in care'.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • Life
  • Attention
  • Care

• I believe the old boys' network is a powerful one. No one gives up power and privilege willingly, do they?

  

  Quentin Bryce
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Power

• I believe that first impressions are very important.

  

  F. W. de Klerk
  • Believe
  • Important

• What is important is to believe in something so strongly that you're never discouraged.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Believe
  • Important
  • Strength

• I don't feel the need for religion. But I went on a yoga retreat last year and I do believe slightly in the karma thing and just being good and true unto yourself. And I slightly believe that you can attract good and bad to you.

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Bad

• Music is an art that touches the depth of human existence; an art of sounds that crosses all borders.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Music
  • Art
  • Human

• Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Believe
  • Faith
  • See

• You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.

  

  Jackie Kennedy
  • Good
  • Know
  • Politics

• I think that a lot of kids today focus on impressing each other. And while that's really nice, you also have to think about your future, about getting into a good school.

  

  Kara Hayward
  • Good
  • School
  • Kids

• I believe that often people even stay in bad relationships longer than they should because the fear of the pain of dating is scarier than the pain of a bad relationship!

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • People
  • Believe
  • Bad

• The word 'belief' is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it – I don't need to believe it.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Believe
  • Know
  • Reason

• In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Heart
  • Art
  • Hand

• It's very hard to find perfection in your life. But in the art world you can do that.

  

  Washed Out
  • Life
  • World
  • Art

• Real Texans believe in looking out for each other. We believe in honoring our mothers and fathers and keeping our smallest residents - our children - healthy.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Believe
  • Children
  • Real

• Because our fight has been for such a long time we are isolated from the world, even after reconstruction we don't have much attention from people outside.

  

  Hanoi Hannah
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• You can't believe everything you read. I am only six foot three, by the way.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Believe
  • Read

• I'm uneasy with fame so I do my best to avoid places that will bring me more attention.

  

  Sade Adu
  • Me
  • Attention
  • Fame

• ...one thing I am ready to fight for as long as I can, in word and act: that is, that we shall be better, braver and more active men if we believe it right to look for what we don't know than if we believe there is no point in looking because what we don't know we can never discover.

  

  Socrates
  • Believe
  • Better
  • Right

• Inflict the least possible permanent injury, for the enemy of to-day is the customer of the morrow and the ally of the future

  

  B. H. Liddell Hart
  • Future
  • Enemy

• 'You can't be a successful Dictator and design women's underclothing.'No, sir.'One or the other. Not both.'Precisely, sir.'

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Women
  • Design

• Honestly, I don't believe in menswear. I focus on what pieces are most timeless, transcendent, match my lifestyle, remain remarkable, and command intriguing attention across the room at an art gallery.

  

  Janelle Monae
  • Believe
  • Art
  • Attention