Janelle Monae (Janelle Monáe Robinson) Quotes
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I think that it's really incredible, growing up and being able to have all these people who really look up to the work that I do. It's really cool that I have such awesome fans, and I can't thank them enough. I get on my Twitter and Facebook every day, and I see such awesome things.
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And, of course, in the Philippines there were so many thousands of Americans that were captured by the Japanese and held and who were rescued by Filipino Americans, or Filipinos I should say, and by U.S. troops near the close of the war.
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The bottom line is the Kiss Army is growing by leaps and bounds.
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Once I was in the city, I really enjoyed it. Just to experience things. There was so much new stuff.
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Perhaps the truest axiom in baseball is that the toughest thing to do is repeat.
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Find joy and solace in the simple, and cultivate your utopia by feeling the Tao in every cubic inch of space.
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The nineteenth century lynching mob cuts off ears, toes, and fingers, strips off flesh, and distributes portions of the body as souvenirs among the crowd.
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I have an outdoor kitchen at home in Georgia, and I try to never eat inside.
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I am actually a bit chubby, and I eat everything. I eat in a way - if my parents fed me the way I choose to eat as an adult, they would've lost custody.
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I like books that expose me to people unlike me and books that do battle against caricature or simplification. That, to me, is the heroic in fiction.
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If you are passionate about entrepreneurship like I am, you too can instill this passion in your children.
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I love being a redhead. It's a rare thing, so I think there's a bond between redheads.
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I need to be able to be at a gig and just put my bag on the floor and not worry about it being stood on or getting ruined. You want a bag that can go through anything. And a little bit of softness is always lovely. If I don't have a dog, I can just pet my bag!
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I'm OK: I don't need money.
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Duty is not collective; it is personal.
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To me, 'beauty' means to be natural, creative, honest - to say the truth.
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I don't write in Portuguese. I write myself.
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Human life is basically a comedy. Even its tragedies often seem comic to the spectator, and not infrequently they actually have comic touches to the victim. Happiness probably consists largely in the capacity to detect and relish them. A man who can laugh, if only at himself, is never really miserable.
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Antidepressants can have troubling side effects and are addictive for some people.
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I think the blues is fine for blues players, but free blues has never made much sense to me.
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My first favorite band that made music important to me was the Beatles. I was a little kid. I didn't know who was singing what song or who wrote what song.
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Be Funny. Be naturally funny. If you're not, get out of the business. Be compassionate.
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We must recover the element of quality in our traditional pursuit of equality. We must not, in opening our schools to everyone, confuse the idea that all should have equal chance with the notion that all have equal endowments.
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There are months when I'm on a plane every day!
