Top 100 Janet Jackson Quotes
#1. Competition is great. And as long as it's friendly and not a malicious thing, then I think it's cool.
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#3. That's always - that's been another dream of mine, to do a Broadway play. An award winning Broadway play.
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#4. It is my belief that we all have the need to feel special. It is this need that can bring out the best in us, yet the worst in us.
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#5. 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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#6. Some of my battles with weight have been very public. But most of them have been internal. Even at my thinnest, when my body was being praised, I wasn't happy with what I saw in the mirror or how I felt about myself.
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#7. In complete darkness, it is only knowledge and wisdom that separates us.
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#8. You can never be happy until you understand why you're doing what you're doing.
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#9. There are artists, true performers that have come before me who have been a big inspiration to me. I hope I do the same for others.
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#10. I have a pretty bad temper. But you have to really push me to see it. But everybody has their things.
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#11. You get used to working with one choreographer. You kind of get stuck in that vein and you work your way out of it, picking up someone else's style, their flavor. It takes a bit of time.
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#12. A lot of people who start work at a very young age never grow up because they never got that opportunity to be a child, so they hold on to that and still do a lot of childish, silly things.
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#13. My parents are very competitive, so we are very competitive as kids. But it's a good kind of competition; it's not a jealousy. You always want to do your best, and if it can't be you, you want it to be your brother or your sister, you know what I mean?
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#14. By age seven, I used to comb my hair for performances, just pull my hair up into a bun. Granted, it wasn't a very intricate hairstyle. Still, to be that responsible and disciplined at age seven is unusual.
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#15. I'm fine the way I am. There's nothing wrong with me.
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#16. It's two people that are in love with one another. What's the issue?
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#17. Does what you think of you determine your worth?
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#18. I think people really connect with the idea of someone who's gained and lost weight in this very public way, and also someone who's an emotional eater.
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#19. I was two when we left Indiana, and I don't really remember it that well.
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#20. I'm scared to fall in love, afraid to love so fast, cuz everytime I fall in love, it seems to never last.
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#21. It's really about being pleased with yourself.
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#22. I can feel your body pressed against my body. When you start to poundin', love to feel you throbbin'.
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#24. I was never pushed into the religion by my mother or anyone else. I made up my own mind when I was old enough. I am not a religious person, but I am spiritual.
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#25. When I gained weight in 2005, my nutritionist was very worried. I was close to having diabetes.
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#27. You've made love to my mind, now you gotta take me from behind.
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#28. 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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#29. There is a moment when you get older when your metabolism slows down and you don't feel like working out any more, so you don't want to keep yourself fit any more, but that's your decision. Why should you be judged for it?
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#30. There are people that regardless of what it is, if it's something that's stressful, whatever it may be, they don't eat, they lose a lot of weight, a divorce, they get real thin. I'm the opposite.
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#31. MTV was completely unaware of it. It was not my intention that it go as far as it did. I apologize to anyone offended
including the audience, MTV, CBS and the NFL.
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#32. 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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#33. Too many lives go up in smoke - It's nice to laugh but don't be the joke.
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#34. There's other things I'd like to do. I probably won't tour for a very, very long time. It's something that you feel inside and that's the way I've been looking at everything.
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#35. All those songs reflect all the people that live within me.
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#36. I was raised with a ton of brothers and sisters where, obviously, the music running in and out of the house was very eclectic. So, I had a lot under my belt by the time I grew up. It all depends upon the mood that I'm in, the space that I'm in and what I'm feeling at that moment. But definitely!
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#37. I would hope my legacy would be bringing smiles to faces. Happiness with my music.
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#38. Marvin Gaye is our John Lennon. The longer he's gone, the more young people appreciate his art. 'What's Going On' was a work of genius far ahead of it's time.
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#39. If I wasn't singing, I'd probably be, probably an accountant.
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#41. I like to collaborate on my music. The creative process is fun, and you get a lot of ideas from having discussions about it. Ultimately, the final decision is mine.
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#42. 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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#43. I'm happy with the people that I have around me. And they've been friends of mine since I was young, for a very long time.
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#44. Recording is more autobiographical than acting. It's me - either how I'm feeling then or once felt at some point in my life. It's all me.
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#45. My concepts are never bright ideas; they're never notions I think will sell or be trendy or attract new fans. I don't think that way. All I can do is sing from my life.
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#46. The pain is necessary. Sometimes pain is the teacher we require, a hidden gift of healing and hope.
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#47. 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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#49. I've never been one for keeping a journal, so my songs were my journals. They allowed me to express my feelings and let people know what was going on with me. I knew that somebody would relate.
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#51. My first name ain't baby, it's Janet, Miss Jackson if you're nasty
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#52. I do not have a child and all allegations saying so are false.
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#54. Control meant not only taking care of myself but living in a much less protected world. And doing that meant growing a tough skin.
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#55. 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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#56. You don't have to hold onto the pain to hold onto the memory.
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#57. Bound together by our beliefs, we are like minded individuals, sharing a common vision, pushing toward a world rid of color lines.
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#58. I am not a religious person, but I am spiritual. But I don't believe in things like guilt.
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#59. My brothers were gone on tour a lot, and I would miss them so much.
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#60. I'd adopt. And I think that if I'm really supposed to have kids, it will happen, if that's God's plan for me.
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#61. You can't hold the record forever, and I know that. I'm not stupid.
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#62. I'm a very competitive person. But I think that's good.
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#63. Ever since I was little, I loved to eat. I started eating when I wasn't hungry. My weight has always been up and down.
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#64. When I'm feeling down on myself or not feeling good about who I am, or maybe something happened and I'm feeling depressed, I eat to fill that void. Afterwards I'll beat myself up about it. I regret doing it, but I'll turn around and do it again.
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#65. I enjoy them both [singing and acting] a great deal. I have a passion for both. Maybe acting just a little bit more because it's more of a challenge for me, while music comes so easily.
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#66. I do think kids should be kids. You have the rest of your life to be an adult.
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#67. Add to the world's confusion, we teach our kids rules that we don't adhere to ourselves.
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#68. What I love about Gaga is her story, where she came from. Before she made it, before anyone knew who she was, I knew who she was and, to see her finally make it, I was so happy. If we were to work together that would be cool.
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#69. The greatest achievement to any human being is to love God, yourself, and others.
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#70. I don't believe in luck ... It's persistence, hard work, and not forgetting your dream.
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#72. I don't like to work out, and I get bored easily.
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#73. When I'm getting ready for a tour, I'll work out with the dancers.
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#74. I really don't know anything else because my brothers were famous when I was two years old. So I know nothing else, no other life.
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#75. I've always been a tomboy. I've always liked to wear red, black, and white, and mostly pants.
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#77. When I finally make up my mind that I want to do something, it's never been hard for me to do.
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#78. To have someone to relate to and hopefully enjoy the music and get a positive message out of it, to make the best music that we possibly could, those were the goals.
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#79. I was very independent growing up, but there were things that were bothering me that I never told anybody. I would talk to our animals at home.
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#80. 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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#81. Dreams can become a reality when we possess a vision that is characterized by the willingness to work hard, a desire for excellence, and a belief in our right and our responsiblity to be equal members of society.
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#82. I am the baby in the family, and I always will be. I am actually very happy to have that position. But I still get teased. I don't mind that.
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#83. Food has always brought me comfort and the bingeing is triggered when I'm in a space that is not positive.
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#84. I'm convinced that we Black women possess a special indestructible strength that allows us to not only get down, but to get up, to get through, and to get over.
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#85. Self-expression is my goal, I want to be real with my feelings. Singing and dancing and all the joy that goes with performing come from my heart. If I can't feel it, I won't do it.
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#86. I have no clue why, but maybe sometimes when there's someone you don't hear from, it's the person you want to hear from the most.
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#87. Big sisters and brothers ... I am telling you, it never changes.
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#88. People do see me as sweet and innocent. Not to say that I am not those things. But I have other sides to me.
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#89. We're all driven to premieres or nightclubs and seen the rope separating those who can enter and those who can't. Well, there's also a velvet rope we have inside of us, keeping others from knowing our feelings.
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#90. I always write my music based on what is going on in my life at the time.
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#91. My dad taught us that there's no greater distance than that between first and second place.
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#92. I think it's great if a guy has a good sized package.
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#93. My first crush was Barry Manilow. He performed on TV and I taped it. When no one was around I'd kiss the screen.
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#94. I think it's been a little difficult at times for the audience, because they've told me they see me as a family member. So to see your little sister sing about sex ... I think they are pretty used to it now.
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#95. 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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#96. You don't know how many people come up to me and say, 'This child was conceived listening to you.'
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#97. No word is absolutely wrong or dirty or insulting. It all depends upon context and intention.
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#98. I've talked about sex a great deal in my music for a great while now. I feel very comfortable with it.
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#99. Tie me up, tie me down, make me moan real loud.
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#100. To be given permission to be confused
and remain confused
for as long as it takes would have been a huge gift.
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