Jidenna Theodore Mobisson (Jidenna) Quotes
I was raised with a father who really believed in the bridge between all Africans around the world.
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I was not meant to go deer hunting every fall.
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Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse, And every conqueror creates a muse.
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I don't know how to read. I get all my news from Jon Stewart every day.
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The Sunday School teacher talked too much in the way our grade school teacher used to when she told us about George Washington. Pleasant, pretty stories, but not true.
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Being at the Apollo, I was always starstruck.
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I can work as a writer, but I wanted to do stand-up.
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I think nowadays, women are breaking the borders or the boundaries and also trying to give a new interpretation in terms of impact you can have to the society.
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Breaking the world record in '92 was a very special personal moment, but I'd say my favorite moment as a decathlete was winning the Olympic gold medal. It was a lot of years of work, and when I won it, it was more a sense of relief than jubilation or exaltation.
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I haven't listened to much music lately; I've been out of it.
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When an issue is so fraught with partisanship, a special counsel provides some modicum of transparency and accountability rather the the veil of politics.
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I was under the false impression that I could sing in high school, so I did a lot of musical stuff. I can't sing or dance, so that was entertaining for everyone.
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Work means independence. It allowed me to shape my life on so many levels.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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I like my feet. I have a tattoo on my foot with my last name. They're dancer feet. They're pretty. My toes are proportioned nicely. And they're strong - I can pinch people with my toes.
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I want to be able to do work where I think it's very forward, but I also want it to exist in a big way and have an effect on a lot of people.
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The difference between our family and other poor families was that my mother actively chose to be poor. She was highly literate, and she had a college degree, but after my father left, she took the first secretarial job she could find and never looked for other employment again.
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Yeah, I am lazy. There's no doubt about that.
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When I moved to Bombay, it was very harsh. I was nothing like what I am today. I couldn't speak a word of English. In England, people might be very understanding about that, but in Bombay, they're not very forgiving. 'If you don't speak English, how do you expect to work in Hindi films?'
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We have to learn to think in a new way. We have to learn to ask ourselves, not what steps can be taken to give military victory to whatever group we prefer, for there no longer are such steps; the question we have to ask ourselves is: what steps can be taken to prevent a military contest of which the issue must be disastrous to all parties?
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The E.P.A. is too important to treat like a reality TV show. People's lives and our country's resources are at stake.
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When it comes down to it, I don't have much in the way of advice to offer you, but here it is: Read to children. Vote. And never buy anything from a man who's selling fear.
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As the snake is separate from its slough, even so is the Spirit separate from the body.
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I have to tell everyone that when I finish a film and it goes out and is released, I never look at my films again. I don't like looking back. I don't even like talking about 'em! So I'm really digging back in my memory because I don't like to sit and look at my films again.
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I was raised with a father who really believed in the bridge between all Africans around the world.
