Janelle Monae (Janelle Monáe Robinson) Quotes
Lauryn Hill, P-Funk, Marvin Gaye, Public Enemy - I have a very diverse palate for music. I can go from Judy Garland to Jimi Hendrix to Stevie Wonder to Rachmaninoff. I just love great music.
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Never fear to deliberately walk through dark places, for that is how you reach the light on the other side.
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I love roles that don't really have a template or a paradigm and force me to create using my own imagination... that really, really turns me on.
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On the Internet, inside information is currency, and there will always be counterfeiters among us.
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There are no soft or slothful ways to become sanctified to the point that we are prepared to live in the presence of the Savior. And there can be blessings in the burdens we bear. As a result of these struggles, our souls are stretched and our spirits are strengthened. Our character becomes more Christlike as we are tried and tested.
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The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
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I think twerking is overrated.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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The crusade against Communism was even more imaginary than the specter of Communism.
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I'm mostly drawn to narratives that are difficult for me to visualize.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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There's so much hate that we direct externally that we forget we have our own psychos. But that's the role of the satirist - you have to examine your own country and say, 'look!'
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When I left office in 1979, I was about the only one who had really left public office on my own.
Olusegun Obasanjo
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Every time we moved on, I joined a different class in a different school with different girls until, aged 13, my father had taken the decision to pull me out of school altogether. Everything I needed, he reasoned, could be found within the rich language of Shakespeare's plays at which, by then, I was something of an old hand.
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The secret to everything for me is doing yoga every day. It does do nice things for your body, but it also kind of calms you down and chills you out. Other than that, I don't really drink alcohol and I always take my makeup off at night!
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There is a restaurant in L.A. called Crustacean, which is very famous for its garlic crab. Well, I can make garlic crab better than Crustacean. My sauce is so good you'll want to dip your bread in it, put it on your egg omelet, in your cereal, and in everything else.
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I'm not the girl next door.
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My grandparents lived in Hollywood, and I was surrounded by the romanticism of movies ever since I was a child.
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A lot of these guys in 'Fight Master' will compete in Bellator and in mixed mart arts for quite some time.
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My memory's not too good.
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I'd like to see more crossover between white and black music. That's something I've been advocating for years.
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I'm not really a computer guy. It's like recess. I'd rather be outside getting dirty in the sandbox.
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A woman who wants to go places needs to bring her own ladder.
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Most mainstream male fiction is littered with heroines, and female characters are basically so great, you want to fall in love with them.
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Lauryn Hill, P-Funk, Marvin Gaye, Public Enemy - I have a very diverse palate for music. I can go from Judy Garland to Jimi Hendrix to Stevie Wonder to Rachmaninoff. I just love great music.
