Jidenna Theodore Mobisson (Jidenna) Quotes

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Jidenna Theodore Mobisson

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• The game of basketball is one thing, but the image of the game is another thing.

  

  Earl Monroe
  • Game
  • Basketball
  • Image

• You don't need to raise taxes on rich people, because they create capitalization and investment. But you need to tax speculation - meaning capital gains.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • People
  • Rich
  • Meaning

• I think the fact that I made enough noise in the world that I might be remembered is an amazing achievement. You can't ask for more than that.

  

  Nas
  • World
  • Amazing
  • Achievement

• I don't want any competition; I've finally made it! I don't want any young bucks knocking me off and taking my job, so stay in school! Stay in school and get a nice job working in an office!

  

  Adam DeVine
  • School
  • Job
  • Nice

• If there's ever any point in my life where I could meet Jennifer Aniston, I think that'd be pretty incredible!

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Life
  • Think
  • Pretty

• What Woman needs is not as a woman to act or rule, but as a nature to grow, as an intellect to discern, as a soul to live freely and unimpeded.

  

  Margaret Fuller
  • Live
  • Nature
  • Soul

• Lonely people, in talking to each other can make each other lonelier.

  

  Lillian Hellman
  • People
  • Lonely

• I don't think of myself as a comedian.

  

  Bonnie Hunt

• Too often people view idealists as naive.

  

  Jacqueline Novogratz
  • People

• There are a lot of things and in order to be at the top and maintain your focus you have to have something that motivates you. For me, it was what I perceived as a lack of respect from the boxing world as well as the media, which made me want to work so hard and be great.

  

  Marvin Hagler
  • World
  • Work
  • Great

• If you had to point to anything, it's when you've had as much success as we've had and are so close to winning a Super Bowl, at some stage you have an opportunity to think the next move, even if it's not consistent with all your previous moves, will be the one that gives you the chance to win the Lombardi Trophy.

  

  Jeffrey Lurie
  • Success
  • Opportunity
  • Winning

• I think what I've learned out of this lifetime is you should be proud of where you come from.

  

  Robert James Ritchi
  • Proud

• People don't realize how much it means to your music to record on tape, whether it be for new music or old music. People don't realize how much or how imperative it is to use actual hardware when making drums because those are actual percussion samplers. They're hardware instruments that are made to have the drum hit.

  

  Adrian Younge
  • People
  • Music

• The English have always been greedy for news of times past, with that mixture of fatalism and melancholy which is part of the national character.

  

  Peter Ackroyd
  • Character
  • Past
  • English

• There are so many demands on your time, on your resources, and on the prestige of the government.

  

  Brian Mulroney
  • Time

• I always say that 'Futurama' is real, and 'The Simpsons' is fiction.

  

  Matt Groening
  • Real

• The reality is, the movies that were most impactful to me growing up, when I decided I wanted to make movies, I was going to see Woody Allen double features with my brother, back when they had double features.

  

  Doug Liman
  • Up
  • Reality
  • Growing

• In antihistory, time is an illusion.

  

  Jill Lepore
  • Time

• I don't know why so many people in America hate Hillary Clinton; I found her to be one of the most gracious, intelligent, perceptive, and, yes, classy women I have ever met.

  

  Peter Navarro
  • People
  • Women
  • Why

• If I had been straight, I would have been an entirely different person. I would never have turned toward writing with a burning desire to confess, to understand, to justify myself in the eyes of others... I wouldn't have been impelled to live in New York and choose the hard poverty of bohemia over the soft comfort of the business world.

  

  Edmund White
  • World
  • Different
  • Writing

• What is a portrait good for, unless it shows just how the subject was seen by the painter? In the old days before photography came in a sitter had a perfect right to say to the artist: 'Paint me just as I am.' Now if he wishes absolute fidelity he can go to the photographer and get it.

  

  Aubrey Beardsley
  • Good
  • Perfect
  • Photography

• I used to do community theater with Conor Oberst.

  

  Andrew Rannells
  • Community

• I don't think you can teach people how to be funny. You can make suggestions about how to speak a line or get a laugh, but it has to be in them.

  

  George Cukor
  • People
  • Funny

• Swanky means classy and funky.

  

  Jidenna Theodore Mobisson
  • Classy