Janelle Monae (Janelle Monáe Robinson) Quotes
My grandmother was the matriarch. If you didn't have a place to stay, if you needed food, if you were just coming out of jail or rehab, you went to her. Watching her in our family and our wider community was what inspired me and still does.
Janelle Monae
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People hear the examples of kids who work when they're young, have bad experiences, and then have a rough life after that, but a lot of it is just about the people around you.
Haley Joel Osment
We need to have Turkey respect democracy, human rights, and fundamental freedoms.
Federica Mogherini
It's nature-nurture, right? I've been nurtured by Californians.
Gavin Newsom
I mask every single day. I mask every morning - since I was 27 years old. I don't care the brand: it can be from the drugstore or high end. I can be walking my dog in the mask scaring children and people off, but it's my routine that I commit to every single day.
Tamron Hall
I'm working on my new album right now. Hopefully to get that out at the top of 2005, January 2005.
Obie Trice
Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes - the whole bag of tricks.
P. J. O'Rourke
I worry a lot about people using games just for marketing, to get people to buy more stuff, which I think would be the worst possible use.
Jane McGonigal
Genetic testing in the future is going to be seen as critical as testing your cholesterol.
Anne Wojcicki
The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic.
A. E. Housman
Because of technological limits, there is a certain amount of food that we can produce per acre. If we were to have intensive greenhouse agriculture, we could have much higher production.
Ralph Merkle
In the right circumstances, I'm a big fan of eating alone. Often, on a Sunday evening, I go to a yoga class whose charm is largely that it gives me an alibi to avoid cooking family supper for once. I return to have boiled eggs and soldiers in silence with a book. Bliss.
Bee Wilson
My grandmother was the matriarch. If you didn't have a place to stay, if you needed food, if you were just coming out of jail or rehab, you went to her. Watching her in our family and our wider community was what inspired me and still does.
Janelle Monae
