Janet Jackson Quotes

To be given permission to be confused -- and remain confused -- for as long as it takes would have been a huge gift.

Janet Jackson

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• Sir, I am a republican; and I desire to see this House observe the principles of that democracy which is ever on the lips of its members, and which, I hope, is in their hearts, as I know and feel it is in mine, and mean it shall be in my conduct.

  

  Caleb Cushing
  • House
  • Desire
  • Democracy

• I've no regrets at all, but I still think at times that I would have loved to play in England. You live football over there; it's a great culture. People respect you more; it's more difficult to find respect in Spain. There is more criticism here.

  

  Xavi
  • People
  • Great
  • Live

• I don't have a disregard for my reader in humor pieces.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Humor
  • Pieces
  • Disregard

• I'll have the chance to do a production number on A Capitol Fourth.

  

  Barry Bostwick
  • Chance
  • Production
  • Number

• I think the market should reward banks that have been transparent in recognising their problems. I think the tendency of banks to hide the problem assets over a period of three or four years should not be allowed.

  

  Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair
  • Think
  • Problem
  • Period

• If developed countries' citizens want to feel slightly better about their economies' slow growth and high unemployment, they should contemplate how much worse matters could be without the institutions that they have.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • High
  • Growth
  • Better

• No person, not even a congressman, is above the law.

  

  Dana Boente
  • Law
  • Person
  • Above

• I have this wonderful personal chef who sources and stocks all my organic produce and I basically live on five smoothies a day. I'm totally vegan. I blend this green concoction with kale, cucumber, broccoli, string beans, avocado. My protein comes from protein powder. There is absolutely no milk, butter, cheese.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Live
  • Day
  • Green

• I think I've achieved a lot in 41 years. I like how 41 feels; I feel good. I don't like how it sounds too much.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Good
  • Think
  • Feel Good

• A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Artist
  • Mechanic
  • Synthesis

• Everything we did was criticized. For about thirty years we lived with the world against us, accusing us of things we didn't do!

  

  Ian Smith
  • World
  • Years
  • Everything

• Whatever my recorded output is, it's a reflection of a general love of music.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Music
  • Love
  • Reflection

• Decision making in a democracy depends above all on knowledge and not just the intel available to presidents and policymakers.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Knowledge
  • Decision
  • Democracy

• 'Smart', in American usage, is slicker and sharper than 'intelligent'; faster off the mark and quicker on its feet than deep thought.

  

  Mal Peet
  • American
  • Deep
  • Thought

• I've had this theory for a while, but I think there needs to be a message with the end of 'Game of Thrones.' You know? I think what needs to happen is ice and fire are going to go to war, a huge war between those two factions, and I think, in that war, they will destroy themselves. There will be complete chaos, complete destruction.

  

  Finn Jones
  • War
  • Game
  • Fire

• Even when you're 50, you can make the effort to improve your standards.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • You
  • Effort
  • Improve

• It's not until the very last phase that you know how good the works are going to be.

  

  Caio Fonseca
  • Good
  • You
  • Know

• I remember watching Gilda Radner when I was a kid and everyone thought she was so funny and no one ever said that she was a funny woman, she was just funny.

  

  Rachel Dratch
  • She
  • Remember
  • Funny

• Why does God endow us with compassion?

  

  Franz Schubert
  • God
  • Why
  • Compassion

• Workplaces still operate like it's 1962 and one person is always at home, and they are not very good at adjusting for the fact that a majority of women work and take care of children.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Good
  • Work
  • Women

• Only the brave know how to forgive...A coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.

  

  Laurence Sterne
  • Nature
  • Brave
  • Coward

• While everyone's experience of oppression is different and complicated and often overlapping, I really believe that if you have privilege, you need to learn as much as you can about the world beyond yourself.

  

  Kathleen Hanna Bikini Kill
  • World
  • Believe
  • Different

• It's very simple. If the American people care about a lot of things including corruption in government, then, in fact, if you use the power to appoint in order to do political business, to clear fields, to save your party money and so on, if it's not a crime - and I believe it is - it certainly is business as usual, politics of corruption.

  

  Darrell Issa
  • People
  • Believe
  • Money

• To be given permission to be confused -- and remain confused -- for as long as it takes would have been a huge gift.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Long
  • Confused
  • Given