Janelle Monae (Janelle Monáe Robinson) Quotes
My message is that I want to reach the people - the people who work each and every day.
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Whenever I'm waiting behind the stage, it's kind of like my normal Jackie mode is me talking a lot, playing around, but superstar Jackie mode is me concentrating on making sure that this performance was going to be a great performance.
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You might not agree with me, but I always offer a lot of support.
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Being popular comes when you have everything. But to be liked, it means that you must be treating people with respect and you must be showing kindness toward them.
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Like baseball, food will never go out of style; we will always need to eat and we will always find it entertaining. I think of food TV this way - all the fun and none of the calories.
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Why not mix this and that? If soy goes well with fish, how come no one does beef carpaccio with soy? Why do we have such a taste and not another? It's all about culture. There is something, however, that I really don't like: bell peppers.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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I am an unrepentant tweetaholic. I use the communications service all day long to discover news, interesting tidbits and, of course, to flack the work of our tech and media news site, Re/code.
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I didn't want to settle or become complacent after winning a major, I wanted to stay hungry. It's easy to do. It's easy to win a big tournament and kind of get a little lazy, so it's been a good motivator for me to work a little harder.
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I'd never been published when I was young.
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We need to build systems that can automatically figure out what's high quality and what's not, and encourage users to contribute high-quality content. There's a lot of technical challenges in that.
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I shall always be a priest of love.
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When you are poor, you'll have to think of ways to be better off.
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I get most of my inspiration from older records. Most of the records that I listen to were probably made before I was born, and I was born in the mid-'70s. I don't know why, exactly, I'm drawn to those sounds.
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Most people consider me an optimist because I laughingly state that I would take my last two dollars and buy a money belt.
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The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.
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Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.
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These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.
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In 2013, a great national coalition came together to compel Congress to deny Barack Obama authority to take us to war in Syria.
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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Whenever I'm being invited to the New York City Marathon like today, I need to think twice because I know it's a very tough race.
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There's this thing in Hollywood about the sympathetic character and likability. I've never understood that because the people I love most in my life are not likable all the time. My wife is not always likable. I'm certainly not always likable. My dad is not always likable. We're human beings.
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At every election, my vote goes to the candidate less likely to declare war. You're dropping hugely expensive pieces of exploding metal on a population. America deserves the president it gets, whether the country votes for them or allows their vote to be stolen, and the least we can do is to elect someone who won't do that to other people.
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Three-fourths of the people you will ever meet are hungering and thirsting for sympathy. Give it to them, and they will love you.
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My message is that I want to reach the people - the people who work each and every day.
