Janelle Monae (Janelle Monáe Robinson) Quotes

I love the mystery behind things.

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• Generally, I like making my own mistakes and learning from them because that's what I think life is about.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Life
  • Learning
  • Mistakes

• It's hard to be in the shadow of a Beyonce.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Hard
  • Shadow
  • Beyonce

• Perhaps there is no greater evidence that the teachers' union has swung too far out of the mainstream that they both have been a target of near-constant criticism from Secretary of Education Arne Duncan.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Education
  • Criticism
  • Target

• The cat with gloves catches no mice.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
  • Cat
  • Gloves
  • Mice

• Let the message go out - a new generation has taken charge of Labour which is optimistic about our country, optimistic about our world, optimistic about the power of politics. We are optimistic and together we will change Britain.

  

  Ed Miliband
  • World
  • Country
  • Power

• Let's be cautious about dreaming up extreme scenarios. The situation in Iraq is still salvageable.

  

  Rand Beers
  • Up
  • Situation
  • Dreaming

• We still have a soft approach on the perpetrators of crimes like worst forms of child labour.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • Like
  • Child
  • Worst

• I'm close with all my family. It's just a normal, healthy, all-American divorced family.

  

  Dana Ashbrook
  • Family
  • American
  • Healthy

• When the congregation becomes the norm by which sermons are measured, a minister has put a mortgage on his soul.

  

  Ralph W. Sockman
  • Soul
  • Mortgage
  • Norm

• I think people are just incredibly depressed and hopeless about the prospects for change.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • People
  • Think
  • Change

• Everyone is going to die.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Die
  • Everyone
  • Going

• I would define the new aspects of fatherhood like this: It is 75 percent amazing and 25 percent demoralizing. I think any new parent can understand exactly what I'm talking about.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Think
  • Amazing
  • Parent

• Most of the film directors expect their actors to want to work fast.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Work
  • Want
  • Fast

• I don't believe that recordings should sound radically better than the artist, I think that's dishonest. For example, I'm not a great singer but if I spent enough time tweaking my vocals, I could sound like one. But I don't, what you hear is pretty much what I sing.

  

  Malcolm Wilson
  • Time
  • Great
  • Believe

• I don't support terrorism and never have. As a Sri Lankan that fled war and bombings, my music is the voice of the civilian refugee.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Music
  • War
  • Support

• C'est ici le combat du jour et de la nuit... Je vois de la lumière noire.

  

  Victor Hugo

• Older people are most beautiful when they have what is lacking in the young: poise, erudition, wisdom, phronesis, and this post-heroic absence of agitation.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Wisdom

• Any such inklings were like a few scattered grains of truth dissolved in an ocean of nonsense, and were anyway generally inextricably bound up with patently paranoid ravings which served only to devalue the small amounts of sense and pertinence with which they were associated.

  

  Iain Banks
  • Up
  • Truth
  • Small

• If you write any kind of fiction about America, you immediately have to start doing some research about guns, so in some ways, 'Gun Machine' is just the culmination of 20 years of reading about guns.

  

  Warren Ellis
  • America
  • Reading
  • Gun

• I like plays where people talk a lot. Conversation is sustained. Argument is sustained.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • People
  • Play
  • Conversation

• As you make your way along life's tumultuous highways, it's important to note that you should always carry a map, have plenty of fuel in the tank, and take frequent rest stops.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Life
  • Important
  • Rest

• We all want our drugs to be safe - and so an essential part of the pathway to the development of a new drug is approval by a regulator.

  

  Mark Walport
  • Drug

• You can’t bring an unwritten place to life without losing something substantial. Manila is the cradle, the graveyard, the memory. The Mecca, the Cathedral, the bordello. The shopping mall, the urinal, the discotheque. I’m hardly speaking in metaphor. It’s the most impermeable of cities. How does one convey all that?

  

  Miguel Syjuco
  • Shopping
  • Cathedrals
  • Graveyard

• I love the mystery behind things.

  

  Janelle Monae