Jidenna Theodore Mobisson (Jidenna) Quotes
For me, it's important that as you're introducing yourself, you show different dimensions.
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A person that says, 'Losing is not difficult,' I don't even want to be around that person. And obviously, that person has never won anything relevant in their life.
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If it weren't for the Internet, WWE probably wouldn't even know my name. If I had to rely on 'Pro Wrestling Illustrated' to get my name out there, it would have been a much more difficult road.
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When I first met Elvis, we had so much in common and became fast friends.
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I never thought that I would become a staple in the Australian cultural diet. The equivalent of bread or milk, or a fine old Tasmanian Mauve Vein. I think it's because I talk about things that people dare not mention. I don't mean raunchy things or unsavoury things. I call a spade a spade - I discuss things in a realistic manner.
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My favorite makeup look was for my 'Eyes Wide Open' video done by Torsten Witte. It was so dramatic and definitely captured the magic of the video.
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I am happy with my form; I just need to score a couple of goals. I want the ball. I want to create something.
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I enjoyed working as a model a lot as it let me travel and I got to do some really interesting projects.
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We continue to blame the poor for their own condition. They are lazy. We do not want to know that the poorest of the poor are toddlers under three years of age.
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Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.
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I can never really remember what I look like. I'm just sort of neutral. I don't think I'm sort of, you know, hideous.
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We are more casual about qualifying the people we allow to act as advocates in the courtroom than we are about licensing electricians.
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I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
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You just can't bifurcate bitcoin currency from the technology. Bitcoin will always need a monetary base.
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I just became a vegetable for three months. I couldn't talk to people. I was very ill and that was part of the reason I left college.
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I grew up in New York.
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I didn't grow up in a wealthy family at all. Being at home all day and watching movies, that was a luxury.
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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
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If there was a time when 'The Ecologist' appeared not to be making a difference at all, not doing something useful, I wouldn't do 'The Ecologist,' but I think it is useful.
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The stage is a place where I can be wholly myself. Even though you're in front of people almost to be judged, it is a place without judgement.
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Well, I wanted to be a philosopher, which is the idlest occupation in the world. I wanted to be involved in abstract thought, but because of various problems with the authorities I wasn't able to pull that one off. A lifetime of idleness in academia would have really suited me. So I was thrown out, as it were. Other than that, there seemed no possible idle occupations, so writing . . . although writing isn't exactly idleness. There's an enormous tension between indolence and languor.
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England is very, very important to me, because in my family the English could do no wrong. When my father picked a mistress, it was always an English girl: if he made her pregnant, she could be shipped back to England and he would not be held responsible. It never happened, but I've made a lot of work called The English Can Do No Wrong.
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We always saw ourselves in careers as entrepreneurs or angels.
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Mostly I'm interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.
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For me, it's important that as you're introducing yourself, you show different dimensions.
