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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Nationalized industries are notorious for their inability to operate at a profit.
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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 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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What goes on between the actor and director is sacred.
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I'm not really massively into going out. I'm much more of a hibernator. It's nice to have people come to your house or go to someone's house, I think.
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I've always just focused on the work, and I've just tried to be honest with the work. If the work speaks to people, fantastic.
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Most of the dandelions had changed from suns to moons.
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It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away.
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Any concept of biology is not only sterile and profitless, it is distorted and untrue, if it puts its primary focus on unnatural conditions rather than on those vast forces not of man's making that shape and channel the nature and direction of life.
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I can't leave the studio until everything is as it should be. And I can't put a record out unless I am completely happy with it. I never want to be at a signing and hear my album playing and think, 'Oh no, I could have done that top note better.'
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Few things are necessary to make the wise man happy while no amount of material wealth would satisfy a fool. I am not a fool.
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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.
