Janet Jackson Quotes

I feel everyone is put here for a reason. Everyone has a calling. I always thought my real calling was to help other people.

Janet Jackson

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• I've grown up with girls that are like Precious. I've grown up with people that are like everyone that I read about in that book. And so years later, when I was given the role, I just felt a huge responsibility to show the reality of that situation and to show that we're not making it up.

  

  Gabourey Sidibe
  • People
  • Up
  • Book

• I know theater can improve the quality of people's lives, and I know theater can heal. I've worked as a doctor clown in a hospital for two years. I have seen sick kids and sad parents and doctors be lifted and transported in moments of pure joy. I know theater unites us.

  

  Natasha Tsakos
  • People
  • Kids
  • Parents

• I was always a real athletic kid. Then when I got older, I just figured it was part of life to keep training.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Life
  • Real
  • Training

• My people were homesteading in Colorado before Emancipation.

  

  Pam Grier
  • People
  • Before
  • Emancipation

• The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • People
  • Love
  • Marriage

• Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed.

  

  Kanye West
  • People
  • Sometimes
  • Novels

• Some people pray to a totem pole, some people pray to a sun, some people pray to a god. It all works for them. It all comes back to what you think.

  

  Barry Zito
  • People
  • God
  • Sun

• The most intense curiosity and excitement prevailed, and though the weather was uncertain, enormous masses of densely packed people lined the road, shouting and waving hats and handkerchiefs as we flew by them.

  

  Fanny Kemble
  • People
  • Road
  • Curiosity

• I purposefully try to make films in that grey area, where things are morally ambiguous. It's like life: good people do horrible things, and bad people do good things, and there's beauty in horror and horror in beauty.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• What other people think of me is none of my business.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • People
  • Business
  • Think

• Freedom has a price. Most people aren't willing to pay it.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • People
  • Freedom
  • Price

• You know, the polls show that 70 percent of the people are for stem-cell research.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • People
  • Know
  • Research

• People tend not to use this word beauty because it's not intellectual - but there has to be an overlap between beauty and intellect.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • People
  • Beauty
  • Intellectual

• I believed that old people never laughed. I thought they sighed a lot and groaned. They walked with sticks, and they didn't like children on bicycles or roller skates... or with big dogs.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • People
  • Children
  • Thought

• I motivate what I see in young people because we employ about forty thousand young people in our various Chick-fil-A units. Some of them come to work because they need to work; others just work because they just like to work. There's nothing wrong with that.

  

  S. Truett Cathy
  • People
  • Work
  • Young

• There is some group of Americans who are really, really curious to understand how we ended up at this point, where every week it seems like you can turn on your TV and see some sort of abuse being heaped on black people.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Up
  • Black

• I like to tell young people to work hard for your goals and live in the moment.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • People
  • Work
  • Live

• I remember, in my first show in New York, they asked, 'Where is the Indian-ness in your work?'... Now, the same people, after having watched the body of my work, say, 'There is too much Indian philosophy in your work.' They're looking for a superficial skin-level Indian-ness, which I'm not about.

  

  A. Balasubramaniam
  • People
  • Work
  • Remember

• People probably have different philosophies about this, but I think that when you're first shaping the play and trying to find a character, the initial actors that develop it end up imprinting on it - you hear their voices; you hear their rhythms. You can't help but to begin to write toward them during the rehearsal process.

  

  Lynn Nottage
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• Eternity would mean nothing without you. For no power on this earth would I trade my Elena.

  

  Nalini Singh
  • Power
  • Earth

• Watch how you communicate with a woman. Because you're always communicating, even when you're not talking - with your body language, your facial expressions, your eyes.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Eyes
  • Woman
  • Language

• Martin Luther King was a misguided leader. He worked to be recognized as the leader of black America, when what black America needs isn't a leader - it is education. Giving speeches and marching - that's not the concept that brings about real freedom, equality and justice.

  

  Don Yaeger
  • Real
  • America
  • Black

• What I'm trying to do is fulfill what my father said, which is, 'We have to find a way to live together as brothers and sisters, or together we're going to perish as fools.'

  

  Bernice King
  • Live
  • Trying
  • Together

• I feel everyone is put here for a reason. Everyone has a calling. I always thought my real calling was to help other people.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • People
  • Real
  • Help