Janelle Monae (Janelle Monáe Robinson) Quotes
When I was growing up, both my grandmothers would play the organ, and we would all sing.Janelle Monae
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I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.
Yasser Arafat -
In a family of all girls, I was always the 'boy' in my mind - the protector, the masculine one. No one would ever have to worry about me.
Kate Christensen -
You could put all of Rev. Jeremiah Wright's angry sermons on to one loop. You could put that loop up on the big screen at Radio City Music Hall and let it play there 24 hours a day, seven days a week and Barack Obama will still emerge as the next president of the United States.
Gary David Goldberg -
I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greater than sex, although sex isn't too bad either.
Harold Pinter -
Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.
D. H. Lawrence -
Raquel Welch is someone I can also live without. We've got some love scenes together and I am dreading them!
Oliver Reed
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I don't care about revenues.
Jack Ma -
There's no handbook for parenting. So you walk a very fine line as a parent because you are civilizing these raw things. They will tip the coffee over and finger-paint on the table. At some point, you have to say, 'We're gonna have to clean that up because you don't paint with coffee on a table.'
Gary Oldman -
Skepticism is an important historical tool. It is the starting point of all revision of hitherto accepted history.
Samuel E. Morison -
I know things aren't perfect for women in the U.K. and in America, but there are women in the rest of the world who have it far worse.
Maisie Williams -
I usually have more than one thing I'm working on at once - I've been working on three different novels. When I get stuck on one, I hop back and forth.
Dan Chaon -
The things I do, I do from the heart and out of love and respect for our planet and all living things. And I draw my courage from my love for justice and truth, and I calm my fears by comforting those who are more scared than me. And I try to do my best to make the world a better place, one small action at a time, as good as I can.
Q'orianka Kilcher
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Moderate doesn't mean that you're a wimp - far from it. It means that you've chosen a path because you believe that's the only way for global harmony and peace.
Najib Razak -
The spiritual reality of the Indian world is very evident, very highly developed. I think it affects the life of every Indian person in one way or another.
N. Scott Momaday -
She told me that she would support me regardless of what I decided, but I'm so glad that I actually got to be a kid before having to grow up. My mom knows best about this kind of thing.
Kaia Gerber -
I think that the future of currency is digital, and Bitcoin has a good shot at being the currency of the future.
Adam Draper -
One thing that founders always underestimate is how hard it is to recruit.
Sam Altman -
I was in Nashville quite a bit when I shot 'Nashville,' and I was in Los Angeles when I shot in 'Supergirl'.
Laura Benanti
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Four-men aren't used to picking up guys pushing the ball in transition. Let alone, somebody getting the rebound and just busting.
Draymond Green -
Beauty at 70 years old isn't the same as beauty at 20 years old, but it is stunning nonetheless.
Victoria Moran -
God remains a viable hypothesis as the prime mover, however undefinable and untestable that conception may be.
E. O. Wilson -
Literary interviews are inevitably packed with the nuts and bolts of how writers do their work, and there's very little that aspiring writers do more readily than fling other people's nuts and bolts into their toolboxes.
Ben Dolnick -
My ideal evening is to have dinner with one person or a few persons, and then be in bed by 11.
Lee Radziwill -
When I was growing up, both my grandmothers would play the organ, and we would all sing.
Janelle Monae