Janelle Monae (Janelle Monáe Robinson) Quotes

I know what I like; if you go to my closet, I have at least four of everything.

Janelle Monae

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• People idealize or reminisce about their 20s, but nobody tells you beforehand that it's hard and unglamorous and often very unpleasant.

  

  Zosia Mamet
  • People
  • You
  • Very

• If I wait for the genius to come, it just doesn't arrive.

  

  Ian Fleming
  • Genius
  • Just
  • Wait

• The riskiest thing you can do is get greedy.

  

  Lance Armstrong
  • You
  • Get
  • Greedy

• Ever since I was a kid, I wanted to make films. That's really all I ever wanted to do.

  

  Gavin O'Connor
  • Really
  • Kid
  • Ever

• The mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the head and the workman's heart.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Heart
  • Head
  • Worked

• By the time I got to set for 'Cobra,' I think I'd lost about 28 pounds in about a month and a half. I didn't want to look back and be like, 'Wow, someone should stop eating PB and J's.' Like, if I'm going to look back when I'm 80, I wanted to be like, 'Wow, okay, I looked pretty fit. I used my youth right.'

  

  Garrett Clayton
  • Time
  • Pretty
  • Lost

• I have years of saying ideas that are not listened to. Then, weeks after, of producers finding out that I was right when some other guy comes in and says it. Sometimes I just tell my idea to my editor or to some other guy with maybe gray hair to share it, and then it's brilliant!

  

  Patricia Riggen
  • Guy
  • Ideas
  • Hair

• I want to be happy, to look back and feel I danced well at the end of my career and didn't dwindle off. It would be too sad.

  

  Patricia McBride
  • Happy
  • Career
  • End

• I've done it all.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Done

• Pressure for the most part comes from this overarching concern that if I head into the election season without sufficient resources, then any outside group, any individual, any super PAC may choose to come in to my district and overwhelm it and take over the airwaves and control the debate.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • May
  • Control
  • Choose

• I love to tease men with my legs.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Men
  • Love
  • Tease

• Man can certainly flee from God... but he cannot escape him. He can certainly hate God and be hateful to God, but he cannot change into its opposite the eternal love of God which triumphs even in his hate.

  

  Karl Barth
  • God
  • Man
  • Hate

• Voters, whatever their political views, should rise up against politicians who want to dilute the Bill of Rights to perpetuate their tenure in office.

  

  Ted Olson
  • Up
  • Want
  • Political

• I think I've become the brand ambassador of arranged marriages, especially for working Indian women.

  

  Sakshi Tanwar
  • Women
  • Think
  • Brand

• I've always loved War's Low Rider and Sly Stone's Thank You, and I just wanted to put my take on them.

  

  Barry White
  • War
  • Loved
  • Thank You

• If a traditional publisher offered me a quarter of a million dollars for a novel, I'd consider it. But anything less than that, I'm sure I can do better on my own.

  

  J. A. Konrath
  • Better
  • Novel
  • Sure

• If I had to name my favorite media personality, it would be a tie between Jon Stewart and Trey Parker/Matt Stone. Honest, wise, funny, and right. Sam Sifton was right up there when he was writing food criticism for the 'New York Times.'

  

  R. J. Cutler
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Funny

• Liberty is a great celestial Goddess, strong, beneficent, and austere, and she can never descend upon a nation by the shouting of crowds, nor by arguments of unbridled passion, nor by the hatred of class against class.

  

  Annie Besant
  • Great
  • She
  • Strong

• You can't clobber any reader while he's looking. You divert his attention, then you clobber him and he never knows what hit him.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Attention
  • Never
  • Reader

• There are downsides to a lot of things. There are downsides to flying - people die every now and then. Do you want to stop all air flights? There are downsides to pharma; sometimes they're misused. Do you want to stop using pills?

  

  Jamie Dimon
  • People
  • Stop
  • Die

• I suppose, in a way, this has become part of my soul. It is a symbol of my life. Whatever I have done that really matters, I've done wearing it. When the time comes, it will be in this that I journey forth. What greater honor could come to an American, and a soldier?

  

  Douglas MacArthur
  • Life
  • Time
  • Done

• I know what I like; if you go to my closet, I have at least four of everything.

  

  Janelle Monae