Janet Jackson Quotes
I can be happy with who I am, not what I should be, or what I might have been, or what someone tells me I must be.
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I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.
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Men move through a much different process before commitment than women do.
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I love the song 'Into the Night.' It's Roy Orbison meets David Lynch meets Iggy Pop on amphetamines. It has a punk edge that is not HIM, per se. It is super melodic and super '60s, and that is very new to me and it is a sense of achievement to me.
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Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
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Nationalized industries are notorious for their inability to operate at a profit.
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You do not have to dramatize everything. In fact, you usually can't, not without ending up with a half-million-word novel.
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Pakistan is not a rogue state, but it harbours and covertly supports rogue elements. While war is not the answer, hard or coercive diplomacy could be.
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I don't go out anywhere. I don't go to nightclubs, so meeting somebody in the nightclub is out of question.
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In my personal life, I would just feel like, I will always be cool with everyone.
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I can remember the first time I ever recorded my vocals on to a beat. Cat Coore from Third World - a legendary Jamaican band - had a little demo set up at his house. I'm very good friends with his eldest son, Shiah, who plays with me now. So we were rhyming over a track by the dancehall artist Peter Metro. I've still got it somewhere.
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I was born and grew up in Fitzgerald, way down in south Georgia. It was a mill town and my family ran the cotton mill. My grandfather was mayor many times and my family felt deeply rooted to that spot.
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I used to work for a newspaper that covered local resource issues, and my coworkers and friends were journalists. Their reporting work was always pretty grim.
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God is everywhere.
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We talk on principal, but act on motivation.
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But I have had the luxury of working on good films with great people.
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Posthumous reputations have little to do with real lives.
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I and others of my sex find ourselves controlled by a form of government in the inauguration of which we had no voice.
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We play rock & roll, but we swing when we play. We want that ongoing flow, that lightness, that forward rush of jazz.
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As a writing man, or secretary, I have always felt charged with the safekeeping of all unexpected items of worldly and unworldly enchantment, as though I might be held personally responsible if even a small one were to be lost.
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No people can be truly happy... if abridged of the freedom of their consciences
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I'm happy with what happened out there. It's always good to finally get out there and seeing what it's like actually being in front of everyone and actually running Weis' offense the first time when it actually means something.
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I think people get excited about someone discovering something that blew their mind when they were younger. I think it makes people kind of nostalgic and happy. That's one of the really great things about the Internet, that it can bring people together in that way of just being interested in the same stuff.
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My favorite was always whichever sport was in season. I think these days it's almost saddening to see kids who are 10 or 11 and are forced to choose one sport and specialize in that sport and play that sport year-round. By playing different sports... you become a better all-around athlete.
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I can be happy with who I am, not what I should be, or what I might have been, or what someone tells me I must be.
