Janet Jackson Quotes
I can't believe people got so upset at the sight of a single breast! America is so parochial, I may just have to move to Europe where people are more mature about things like that!
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I love people with strong convictions, because we are living in a very PC world. You can't crack a joke without it being in the headlines.
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I quite like Low, the band from Minnesota. They're absolutely mesmerizing. I get much the same feeling from anything that Will Oldham does.
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I have cravings all the time, even when I'm not pregnant.
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Love is a strange emotion. It is ever evolving. Lust is transient. With time, one realizes that love and togetherness are two different things. Very few people are lucky enough to experience the two emotions simultaneously.
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Our best thoughts come from others.
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I think going from doing TV and straight plays to Shakespeare is weird enough because you have this heightened language, and you are telling a story through metric poetry. But I think music is that place beyond poetry.
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It is an endless procession of surprises. The expected rarely occurs and never in the expected manner.
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Human faces shouldn't get lost amid the statistics.
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If you've got unemployment, low pay, that was just too bad. But that was the system. That was the sort of economy and philosophy against which I was fighting in the 1930s.
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I have been afraid of guns, I have sworn I would never use a gun on another person and so did not need one, and I have wanted to deny the existence of evil.
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I think most people that are looked upon as doing something daring don't necessarily think of it that way-they do what they have to do.
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I know that I've played a lot of comedic roles. It's a visual medium. When you get one role, you start to get cast in that role for awhile because that's what people have seen you do, and have hopefully seen you do it successfully.
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The one thing about going from the audience to the stage in just three years is that you know how it feels to be down there.
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There is a degree of confidence exhibited towards strangers in Sweden, especially in hotels, at post-stations, and on board the inland steamers, which tells well for the general honesty of the people.
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If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.
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Failing to engage in conflict is a terrible decision, one that puts our temporary comfort and the avoidance of discomfort ahead of the ultimate goal of our organization.
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Crime novels, it has been said, show the human psyche under pressure.
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I believe in stopping work and eating lunch.
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I would hate to look back on my life and go, 'You know, I wanted to do a rock n' roll album. I should have, and I never did.'
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Not very long ago some one invented the assertion that there were only 'Four Hundred' people in New York City who were really worth noticing. But a wiser man has arisen - the census taker - and his larger estimate of human interest has been preferred in marking out the field of these little stories of the 'Four Million.'
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God's everywhere, but I gotta go down (to church) to see him? Really? And he's mad at me down there, and I owe you money?
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As much as people pretend 'I fit in, I understand, I get the rules,' there are always times spent away from that where you go, 'I thought I knew. It seemed so clear to me, and then...' That sense of loneliness, or the sense of not fitting in or being out of depth, is probably the most common denominator.
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I can't believe people got so upset at the sight of a single breast! America is so parochial, I may just have to move to Europe where people are more mature about things like that!
