Janelle Monae (Janelle Monáe Robinson) Quotes
Once you find what you like, it's like it worked yesterday, it works today, it'll work tomorrow.
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The world is always in movement.
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The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.
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When foreign assistance has a clear mission, buy-in from the aid-recipient country, and explicit metrics for implementation, the United States will be able to transition aid-recipient nations into strong trading partners. One of the greatest examples of this successful transition is South Korea.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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At every turn, small businesses should be encouraged to compete. When they do, we all win.
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I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past?
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When I'm making music, I can hear all the parts, all the instruments. I can hear what it should be.
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I don't take pleasure in anyone's demise, really.
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There are millions of people who consume music illegally every month. Just getting them into a legal service will make the music industry way bigger than it's ever been before.
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I am a just man.
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I don't find any real rivalries with crime and thriller writers anyway. That might sound a little Pollyanna, but for the most part the writers I compete with, if you want to use that word, it's a pretty friendly rivalry. I think we all realise that the boat rises and sinks together.
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I'm a weekday warrior who takes our Georgia values to Washington, and on the weekends, I'm back home.
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If you look at my record, I have a clean record.
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The principle of responsibility and collective sanctions is incompatible with the Western concept of justice.
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I am a bit of a Cheap Pete, but I do spend a fortune on books and false moustaches and practical jokes.
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I'm often drawn to characters that are more obviously one thing. They're passionate, and there is always an element of strength because I think every person possesses that in some way, even if they've experienced hardship in their lives.
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And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.
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As a musician, life is not over just because you are getting older, and so I find retirement a very frightening and dark thought.
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'Loving Frank' is about a forbidden love affair between two people who lived a hundred years ago - Frank Lloyd Wright and his married client, Mamah Borthwick Cheney. The affair set off a colossal newspaper scandal when the lovers ran off to Europe together.
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It was a fairly happy childhood. My father was working away, and my mum brought up five kids all on her own.
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I think my strength is always been in being very natural. I think Shakespeare and things like that would be more a stretch for me.
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I've have a number of violent tics. With Tourette syndrome, there's not just compulsive actions, but compulsive thoughts as well. That used to scare my mother a lot.
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You can't predict a show, that is the damndest thing, you can't predict if a show is going to work or not until it's on the air.
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Once you find what you like, it's like it worked yesterday, it works today, it'll work tomorrow.
