Janelle Monae (Janelle Monáe Robinson) Quotes

I don't even know at what age I started, because it's always been there. Performing... creating... it's in my DNA.

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• I struggled with being a broke college graduate, and while all my friends were getting career jobs, I was working horrible part-time jobs. That's why now, even when I get tired, I think, 'This is what I asked for.'

  

  J. Cole
  • Time
  • Why
  • Friends

• O man you are busy working for the world, and the world is busy trying to turn you out.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • World
  • Work
  • Trying

• I wanted to get a taste of what it would feel like to be a mum. I've always had a strong maternal instinct and ideally I would love one of my own.

  

  Samantha Fox
  • Love
  • Strong
  • Own

• Whether people be of high or low birth, rich or poor, old or young, enlightened or confused, they are all alike in that they will one day die.

  

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo
  • People
  • High
  • Die

• I don't weigh into politics.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Politics
  • Weigh

• Marty Russo was too good a golfer to be a servant of the people.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • People
  • Good
  • Servant

• I can't be disappointed with my first gold in a senior championship, and to score 5000 points, which only one other woman, the world record holder, has got over, I am satisfied.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • World
  • Woman
  • Gold

• I'm the Ali of today. I'm the Marvin Gaye of today. I'm the Bob Marley of today. I'm the Martin Luther King, or all the other greats that have come before us. And a lot of people are starting to realise that now.

  

  R. Kelly
  • People
  • Today
  • King

• I think everybody can identify, you know, with this sort of struggle to decide for yourself who you are, you know, and what your place in life is.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • Life
  • Struggle
  • Yourself

• The reason I was able to grow my business was that every day, after producing 30 minutes of wine television, I spent 15 hours a day replying to every single person's e-mail and every single person's Twitter @ reply.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Business
  • Single
  • Day

• It's a wild thing, that people have the ability to help each other by just relating to one another.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • People
  • Help
  • WIld

• Shaming people into being virtuous doesn't change behaviour.

  

  Jaan Tallinn
  • People
  • Change
  • Being

• My grandparents don't really listen to pop music, and they only speak Spanish and only listen to Spanish music.

  

  Becky G
  • Music
  • Speak
  • Listen

• I don't need fame and I don't need power and I don't need wealth. I'm in need of friends, which I have found in abundance.

  

  Utah Phillips
  • Power
  • Friends
  • Fame

• I take great pride in having been able to overcome the Asian financial crisis and seeking the opportunities available to bring about an unprecedented growth in the economy.

  

  Zhu Rongji
  • Great
  • Growth
  • Pride

• If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable. You must reach the emotional and intellectual level of ability where you can go out stark naked, emotionally, in front of an audience.

  

  Jack Lemmon
  • Want
  • Emotional
  • Audience

• Over the years, Western governments have been criticized for working with foreign police who have proved abusive or corrupt.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Working
  • Police
  • Corrupt

• I'm really scared of flying. Like, really, really, really scared.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Like
  • Flying
  • Scared

• You can’t contain an organization that is running roughshod through that much territory, causing that much havoc, displacing that many people, killing that many innocents, enslaving that many women. The goal has to be to dismantle them.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Women
  • Running

• If you're not angry, you're just stupid, or you don't care.

  

  Ani DiFranco
  • Stupid
  • Angry

• I lived alone, I didn't know anybody in New York, and I was definitely a recluse. It had been, like, two weeks, and I realized I hadn't said anything. I was laying in bed, and I was like, 'Hello?' I just talked to hear my own voice. And it was such a strange feeling.

  

  Margaret Qualley
  • Feeling
  • Alone

• I am in the fortunate-enough position where I can be picky.

  

  Allison Williams

• Sometimes I think there ought to be a coat of arms for all of us who listen to Oberst's band Bright Eyes past the age of twenty-six. 'With Love and Shame,' the motto would read. The handwriting would be the cramped and tortured scribble of a high school freshman.

  

  Ben Dolnick
  • School
  • High
  • Age

• I don't even know at what age I started, because it's always been there. Performing... creating... it's in my DNA.

  

  Janelle Monae
  • Age