Janelle Monae (Janelle Monáe Robinson) Quotes

I've never viewed myself as 'just' a musician or singer.

Janelle Monae

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• Doing a TV show is different because it's more of a TV version of something. A more focused take on things.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Different
  • Doing
  • Take

• There are always new places to go fishing. For any fisherman, there's always a new place, always a new horizon.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Always
  • Fishing
  • Horizon

• I have never believed in comparisons, whether they are about different eras, players or coaches.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Different
  • Never
  • Coaches

• When the courts decide that murderers, rapists, and others who maliciously break our social contract deserve health care that most working Americans can't afford, they are condemning good people to death.

  

  Tammy Bruce
  • People
  • Good
  • Death

• My favorite moment was in Game 6 when Bill Walton tapped a missed Sixers shot toward the backcourt and Johnny Davis ran it down as the clock expired. We were NBA champions!

  

  Jack Ramsay
  • Game
  • Moment
  • Clock

• When I look back at what I had to go through in black baseball, I can only marvel at the many black players who stuck it out for years in the Jim Crow leagues because they had nowhere else to go.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Black
  • Years
  • Baseball

• We need more transparency and accountability in government so that people know how their money is being spent. That means putting budgets online, putting legislation online.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • People
  • Money
  • Government

• Our fears are an amazing gift of the imagination... a way of glimpsing what might be the future when there's still time to influence how that future will play out.

  

  Karen Thompson Walker
  • Time
  • Future
  • Amazing

• A boardroom is a collection of individuals, and individuals have varying motives, egos, agendas and qualifications. Sometimes the dynamics can go off track.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Sometimes
  • Go
  • Collection

• As Mayor of San Francisco, I will work hard to ensure that, in the event of natural or man-made disasters, San Franciscans are prepared and our City is protected.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Work
  • City
  • Work Hard

• You don't wear all your jewellery at once. You're much more believable if you talk in your own voice.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • You
  • Voice
  • Talk

• I have been a firm believer in the federal structure of our country as enshrined in the Constitution.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Country
  • Constitution
  • Our

• A Buddhist or a good atheist is as acceptable to God as a good Catholic.

  

  Pat Buckley
  • Good
  • God
  • Catholic

• Auditioning is an entirely different part of what we do as actors.

  

  Laura Spencer
  • Different
  • Part
  • Auditioning

• An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Nature

• I can remember being at Sandringham, for the first time, at Christmas. And I was worried what to give the Queen as her Christmas present. I was thinking, 'Gosh, what should I give her?'. I thought, 'I'll make her something.' Which could have gone horribly wrong. But I decided to make my granny's recipe of chutney.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Remember

• Because I do not hope to knowThe infirm glory of the positive hourBecause I do not thinkBecause I know I shall not knowThe one veritable transitory powerBecause I cannot drinkThere, where trees flower, and springs flow, for there is nothing again

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Hope
  • Positive
  • Flower

• There are probably better ways to do that, but it would make the parser more complex. I do, occasionally, struggle feebly against complexity...

  

  Larry Wall
  • Struggle

• When I was 12, I forgot the keys to my parent's apartment. So I simply climbed up seven floors to get in.

  

  Alain Robert
  • Up

• When you're a little kid, you have nerve. I'd walk right up to whoever was recording and say, 'Hey, dude, what's the lick of the week?'

  

  Darrell Lance Abbott
  • Up

• I'm delighted to carry on in the tradition of the great reporters like Edward R. Murrow, Ernie Pyle, and Geraldo Rivera to probe vitally important issues of the day, starting with whether I'm Hispanic or Latino.

  

  Al Madrigal
  • Great
  • Important

• People always think women meet us in the hotel lobby, but it's the opposite. The majority of the time, you go out to eat with your teammates, then rest for the next day's game. It's not a vacation - most guys view the road as a business trip.

  

  Kevin Durant
  • People
  • Time
  • Women

• Every screenwriter worthy of the name has already directed his film when he has written his script.

  

  Joseph L. Mankiewicz
  • Film
  • Directed
  • Screenwriter

• I've never viewed myself as 'just' a musician or singer.

  

  Janelle Monae