Janelle Monae (Janelle Monáe Robinson) Quotes
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We need to bring sustainable energy to every corner of the globe with technologies like solar energy mini-grids, solar powered lights, and wind turbines.
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I got into the race and people literally laughed. They thought I had no chance of winning.
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If North American musicians would only know how uncomfortable life is for European musicians.
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I think watching Channing Tatum caress his Lego Oscar statue will be something I won't forget. Even if I try.
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In the past, the West had tried to export one formula of democracy which should fit to the rest of the world, and they discovered that this doesn't work.
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Microsoft does platform, not really infrastructure, and they do a little bit of Saas.
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Children live in the only successful Marxist state ever created: the family. 'From each according to his ability, to each according to his need' is the family's practice as well as its theory. Even with today's scattershot patterns of marriage and parenting, a family is collectivist to a more than North Korean degree.
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I did my thesis on clowns. It's a powerful thing when you've got this little red nose on. It's a mask, the smallest in the world, but it unveils you. You stand up there and do these exercises that free you, let you play, and see what comes out. What comes out is the truth.
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Shoes are important to me because I don't do much with my clothes.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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Brooklyn's good. Brooklyn's funky. Brooklyn's happening.
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I spent every day just praying that I didn't look like a big dork on camera.
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I could never sit down and say: I'm going to do an out-and-out comedy, just to prove to people I can. You've just got to do what you do. Just listen to your soul and do your art and do it for the right reasons, and then you can't fail.
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Jesus' own witness of sacrificial love and forgiveness, and his work to heal the sick and care for those in need, represent God's ways and vision for us.
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To me, there is nothing but puerility in a tale in which the human form – and local human passions and conditions and standards – are depicted as native to other worlds and universes.
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Everyone dreams of living in Paris.
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Say yes to everything.
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I would hate to look back on my life and go, 'You know, I wanted to do a rock n' roll album. I should have, and I never did.'
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Russia is a big polluter.
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Everybody should get married - once. I was 25.
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My friendship with the great actor and director Alan Rickman did not have a particularly auspicious start.
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Obviously, David [Shore] probably has pressure because House was such an amazing show. But I try not to go into these jobs, thinking that I have to live up to people's expectations.
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Everybody in America is soft, and hates conflict. The cure for this, both in politics and social life, is the same - hardihood. Give them raw truth.
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I believe that imagination inspires nations. It's something that I live by.
