Jidenna Theodore Mobisson (Jidenna) Quotes
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I don't need any nicknames.
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I look forward to a time when my career in a place where I can get out of Los Angeles and find a nice small town like I grew up in to raise my family.
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My earliest memory is dreamlike: in a small orchard or garden I am carried on the arm, I believe, of my father; there was a group of grown-ups, my mother among them, and the group was slowly walking in the orchard, it seems toward the house.
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There is no point in pointing fingers because there are three fingers pointing back at you.
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Don't care what people say. Don't give a damn about their laws.
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I can say this: You haven't lived until you've had to wear a triplet pregnancy belly. You would be amazed at what a girl can learn based on the different months of pregnancy to make her character more interesting.
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I don't think the deficit of the country is a Republican issue or a Democratic issue. I think it's a country issue. I don't think worrying about the reindustrialization of America is a Republican or Democratic issue.
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I have a feeling there were many, many successful rock duos that just didn't get attention. That's the fault of the rock press. They are always playing up controversy, scandal, aggravation, and irritation.
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A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
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What I wanted to do was use literature and different kinds of stories and poems as a springboard, tapping into the creativity of our teens - I wanted teenagers to come up with their own creative responses to literature - using books themselves as a starting point.
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It sometimes makes people feel better about themselves, you know, to put other people down, or make fun of them, or maybe make mockery of their work and that doesn't make me feel good at all.
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If you want to go east, don't go west.
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Amanda Bynes and I have become close since filming 'Hairspray.' It's so weird because I grew up watching her.
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There are going to be good days and bad days... and you have to learn to fight through that.
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I think Yvonne De Carlo was more famous than Lily. But I gained the younger audience through The Munsters. And it was a steady job.
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The ability... to experiment with imaginary situations, gives man a freedom... the pleasure in trying out and exploring imaginary situations. A child's play is concerned with this pleasure; and so is much of art, and much of science... Pure science... is a form of play, in this sense.
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No free country will ever again have anything like the 90 percent tax rates that we had in this country. Past a certain point, high marginal tax rates are, indeed, terribly destructive.
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It is the misfortune of small, precise men always to hanker after large and flamboyant women.
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Why is it that many contemporary male thinkers, especially men of color, repudiate the imperialist legacy of Columbus but affirm dimensions of that legacy by their refusal to repudiate patriarchy?
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I think happiness is love.
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Risk is what separates the artist from the artisan.
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It's not that I never do interviews or that I find them traumatic. It's just that I'm basically not that comfortable doing them.
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I think American audiences are open to people with accents and different nationalities being on the screen.
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Everything you touch touches you.
