Jidenna Theodore Mobisson (Jidenna) Quotes

The one thing that I learned in college, actually, was that you may reach tremendous highs and tremendous lows.

Jidenna Theodore Mobisson

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• Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • May
  • Religious
  • Persecution

• I knew I wanted to pursue a career in the theater the minute I graduated from college having not pursued it! So I went back to school and got a degree in music and began working in musical theater.

  

  Nancy Allen
  • Music
  • School
  • Career

• May it please Christ our Lord to grant us true humility and abnegation of will and judgment, so that we may deserve to begin to be His disciples.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • May
  • True
  • Humility

• With a lot of help from my high school teachers, I went to college and became a medical tech at a clinic outside Kansas City.

  

  Karolyn Grimes
  • School
  • Help
  • High

• To my mind, there is no doubt that this Gandhi age is the dark age of India. It is an age in which people, instead of looking for their ideals in the future, are returning to antiquity.

  

  Babasaheb
  • People
  • Mind
  • Age

• How can you have an educated workforce, how do you equal the economic disparities in this country, if you can't make college more affordable for those who are struggling to make it?

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Country
  • You
  • College

• Don't see the point in reading ghost-written autobiographies, even though some of these published lives may fascinate me. The 'ghost' is always present, manipulating an interview into first-person singular text, and it feels like I'm reading a lie.

  

  Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet
  • Person
  • Point
  • Lie

• Happiness statistics may be most valuable in smaller, local discussions. Understanding how different sorts of programs affect the well-being of citizens would be enormously helpful to a mayor choosing between building a new bridge or offering a tax cut.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • Different
  • May
  • Understanding

• If the Chinese will not learn the true principles of government, all else will be useless. Knowledge is power, and although a country may be weak, still, if it possess but a modicum of knowledge, the enemy will not be able to completely overthrow it; although that country may be in danger, the race will not be extirpated.

  

  Zhang Zhidong
  • Country
  • May
  • Power

• When I was growing up, I wasn't in bands, and had really no intention of ever doing music. I went out to California for college, and kind of on a whim started making music really as a joke, and over the course of the next five years started playing a lot of shows, and music became this really integral part of my identity.

  

  K. Flay
  • Up
  • Music
  • Growing

• The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • May
  • Man
  • Wise

• When I was young in L.A. and I couldn't get into clubs or restaurants, I would call imitating celebrities and get a table, and it would work often. I was either Stallone or Mickey Rourke: 'This is Sly. I may be late, but my buddy Hank will be there early.'

  

  Hank Azaria
  • Work
  • May
  • Table

• A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Real
  • Trying
  • May

• Most seem to think that while a person may not be responsible for the opportunities he gets in life, each is entirely responsible for what he makes of these opportunities.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Life
  • May
  • Think

• I wanted to write a story about colonization and about Hawaii. I went to college right at the height of identity politics, and that's how I always read 'The Tempest,' for example.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • College
  • Politics
  • Identity

• We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • May
  • Strong
  • Progress

• I was very good until I left home to go to a little college in West Virginia, and then I started to break some rules.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Good
  • Home
  • College

• I don't know what the future may hold, but I know who holds the future.

  

  Ralph Abernathy
  • May
  • Future
  • Know

• Joining a radical movement when one is young is very much like falling in love when one is young. The girl may turn out to be rotten, but the the experience of love is so valuable it can never be entirely undone by the ultimate disenchantment.

  

  Irving Kristol
  • May
  • Experience
  • Girl

• Heart, we will forget him! You and I, to-night! You may forget the warmth he gave, I will forget the light.When you have done, pray tell me, That I my thoughts may dim; Haste! lest while you’re lagging, I may remember him!

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Heart
  • Done
  • May

• The guilt of Stalin and his immediate entourage before the Party and the people for the mass repressions and lawlessness they committed is enormous and unforgivable.

  

  Mikhail Gorbachev
  • People
  • Committed
  • Enormous

• I love being able to take a nap in the afternoon.

  

  Edie Falco
  • Love
  • Take
  • Nap

• If people are like, 'Oh, you're an icon,' then whatever. But who thinks of themselves like that? It's not like I have posters of myself on the wall.

  

  Kathleen Hanna Bikini Kill
  • People
  • Wall

• The one thing that I learned in college, actually, was that you may reach tremendous highs and tremendous lows.

  

  Jidenna Theodore Mobisson
  • May
  • College