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 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

• The light of love, the purity of grace, The mind, the music breathing from her face, 19The heart whose softness harmonized the whole,- And oh, that eye was in itself a soul!

  

  Lord Byron
  • Music
  • Mind
  • Heart

• I am fighting vigorously for less spending, less waste and limited government. I strongly believe that the more government grows, the less freedom Americans have.

  

  Ed Royce
  • Believe
  • Freedom
  • Government

• There's a joke that, if you can ride through Texas with somebody, which is 700 miles of just straight, flat freeway riding, then you can be friends with them forever.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Friends
  • Forever
  • Texas

• I learned a valuable life lesson that summer. You should find something in life that you really enjoy and seriously consider making that your life's work.

  

  Jim Evans
  • Life
  • Work
  • Summer

• I've certainly had less practice at fatherhood than I have at acting, but in fatherhood, at least my failures are private!

  

  Rich Sommer
  • Practice
  • Fatherhood

• You can play a role in the shaping of tomorrow's world by asking yourself questions like, 'What kind of world do I want to live in?' and 'What does democracy mean to me?'

  

  Jacque Fresco
  • World
  • Live
  • Democracy

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

  

  Janelle Monae