Janelle Monae (Janelle Monáe Robinson) Quotes
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Generally, I like making my own mistakes and learning from them because that's what I think life is about.
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It's hard to be in the shadow of a Beyonce.
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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.
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The cat with gloves catches no mice.
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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.
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Let's be cautious about dreaming up extreme scenarios. The situation in Iraq is still salvageable.
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We still have a soft approach on the perpetrators of crimes like worst forms of child labour.
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I'm close with all my family. It's just a normal, healthy, all-American divorced family.
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I think people are just incredibly depressed and hopeless about the prospects for change.
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Everyone is going to die.
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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.
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Most of the film directors expect their actors to want to work fast.
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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.
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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.
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C'est ici le combat du jour et de la nuit... Je vois de la lumière noire.
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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.
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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.
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If we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome, all of us would do without that nuisance; but since nature has so decreed that we cannot manage comfortably with them, nor live in any way without them, we must plan for our lasting preservation rather than for our temporary pleasure.
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I've been quite fascinated by the relative insignificance of human existence, the shortness of life. We might as well be a letter in a word in a sentence on a page in a book in a library in a city in one country in this enormous universe! And that kind of fear and insignificance has kept me awake at night.
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With Sync technology, we're seamlessly connected to the Internet, hands-free, and able to focus on the road but also able to handle guidance and navigation and play your music.
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It's an important social duty to spread the word of English to people whose livelihoods depend on knowing the language.
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What you do on tour is you build this 'You and me against the world' thing.
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I love the mystery behind things.
