Janelle Monae (Janelle Monáe Robinson) Quotes
I have not lost any of my crazy, fearless, raw, soulful, eclectic side and I plan on continuing to tell universal stories in an unforgettable way.
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The justice delivery system needs structural change. It needs fresh vision and innovative solutions.
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I don't like the blame game, though.
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It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer.
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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
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Life is so fast these days, and we're exposed to so much information. Television makes us a witness to such misery.
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We've never been anti-Semitic.
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I'm a private person. I'm shy about people knowing things.
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I write the novels that are possible for me to write, not that ones I think will come across in a certain light.
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The thing about Iceland is that we are trapped there anyway, all of us. We have been trapped there for thousands of years.
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I've found all of my apartments on Craigslist. I've got good Craigslist luck. I just sit on my couch and really focus on it, and I've gotten really lucky that way.
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A good discourse is that from which nothing can be retrenched without cutting into the quick.
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The battle is all over except the 'shouting' when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.
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If you want to meet a woman, it's best just to smile and say hi.
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Prior to 2001, hardly any company in North America or Europe would buy from India.
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I am not trying to conform to an unrealistic model of beauty. I am, however, being proactive in being the healthiest I can be.
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You just can't let anything or anyone get in the way of who you are.
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People are willing to do the most appalling things to another person for the sake of imposing a religious belief.
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I mean, look at her. Any idiot, you know, would quite taken with Amy.
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The more unconscious individuals, groups, or nations are, the more likely it is that egoic pathology will assume the form of physical violence. Violence is a primitive but still very widespread way in which the ego attempts to assert itself, to prove itself right or another wrong. With very unconscious people, arguments can easily lead to physical violence.
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If there are a couple of adjectives people use to describe me, anger is usually in there. I've never taken that as criticism. It's the way I naturally communicate. But I'm not faux-angry, like Lewis Black, or angry like a gun-toting crazy person. I'm just angry in a mild way - it's not like I'm going to do anything about it.
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One night, I remember being really sick in bed with chills and a fever when Ann came in all excited and said, 'I have these lyrics! Let me read them to you!' They were the lyrics to 'Crazy on You,' and in my fever haze I said, 'Yeah! Those are really good!'
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I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.
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A lot of people misunderstand what it means to have good cardio. Good cardio is when you are able to push the fight, and I've shown that in all of my fights.
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I have not lost any of my crazy, fearless, raw, soulful, eclectic side and I plan on continuing to tell universal stories in an unforgettable way.
