Janet Jackson Quotes
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I work with a lot of different charities, and by that I don't mean merely by giving money, but by really getting involved hands-on. I've always said that one of the reasons why I was put on this Earth was to help people. That's something I've always enjoyed both here in America and if I have the opportunity when I'm traveling out of the country. For example, I like to visit orphanages to spend time with the children. That's very important to me.
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I always knew that I could go deep. How deep? I don't know. But it always seems that with each character I take on, I'm challenged to go deeper than the last time, and then again deeper than the last time. This is the deepest I've ever been asked to dive. And to see how deep I actually went for this, and that I wasn't afraid to go there in order to give Tyler exactly what he envisioned for the character, which was pretty deep, that's what I discovered about myself.
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If people want to know the truth, why don't they just come to me and ask?
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I have so much more confidence in myself now than I ever did before.
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I don't believe in luck. ... It's persistence, hard work, and not forgetting your dream.
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My dad taught us that there's no greater distance than that between first and second place.
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Everywhere I go, every smile I see, I know you are there smilin' back at me. Dancin' in moonlight, I know you are free 'cause I can see your star shinin' down on me.
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I wanted to talk about my life. There is so much. I was 18 when I made the record, and I had a lot to say.
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Every body type is different - that's what makes you unique. What makes you special is you, and you are different from the next person.
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If I wasn't singing, I'd probably be, probably an accountant.
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The greatest achievement to any human being is to love God, yourself, and others.
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I like myself a lot more than I used to. I had a very difficult time in my twenties especially. It was hard for me to look in the mirror and find something that I liked about myself.
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I think it's great if a guy has a good sized package.
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Just like Marilyn Monroe is a lot of girls' idol, that's how I feel about Dorothy Dandridge. And she any Marilyn were very close friends. She went through a lot, and people told her that she couldn't do certain things, but she didn't let that bother her. She said in her mind that she was going to do them and that nothing was impossible, and she did it. It was so sad... She died from drugs, and drinking as well.
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Acceptance is right. Kindness is right. Love is right. I pray, right now, that we're moving into a kinder time when prejudice is overcome by understanding; when narrow-mindedness, and narrow-minded bigotry is overwhelmed by open-hearted empathy; when the pain of judgmentalism is replaced by the purity of love.
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To cut off the confusion and accept an answer just because it's too scary not to have an answer is a good way to get the wrong answer.
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I am not a religious person, but I am spiritual. But I don't believe in things like guilt.
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You get yourself up for it somehow, and your endurance and the crowd gets you up, too.
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As a child, I had to get up early for school or work. I'd get ready by myself. I'd set my alarm to wake me up very early in the morning, and be off to work, the family driver driving me every morning. I did it alone, my parents never coming in to wake me up.
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My brothers were gone on tour a lot, and I would miss them so much.
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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.
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I wanted to be on my own and get out of the house. We were the kind of kids that - we - obeyed our parents. If they said no, you don't ask why.
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In 1977, at age ten, I was cast on the TV sitcom 'Good Times.' My character was Penny, an abused child in desperate need of love. I really didn't want to do the show. I didn't want to be away from my family.
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I feel everyone is put here for a reason. Everyone has a calling. I always thought my real calling was to help other people.