Jidenna Theodore Mobisson (Jidenna) Quotes
I think a lot of people try to be someone else, and Young Thug really is who he is. I love his melodies, how he dresses, how he carries himself.
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Nobody has done more for me than my parents, who devoted untold amounts of time and money that allowed me to play the game I love. It's no exaggeration to say I never would have gotten anywhere near a World Cup, an Olympics, or even the U.S. national team without them. I have never forgotten that, and I never will.
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I don't regret doing any of my films. All of them have been great learning experiences, and they have contributed to making me what I am today.
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I spend all my time right now trying to combat music retail and copyright.
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Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
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I got fired for giving coffee away. It was just my regulars. I'd say, 'Don't worry about it,' and they'd put down a dollar tip. Technically, I was stealing. Ethically, I was boosting morale!
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You can always tell when a man's well informed. His views are pretty much like your own.
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I've been playing old parts forever. I play 93 quite often. When you've done it more than once, you take the hint. I think it's a great burden if you're one of those fantastic stars who've always been beautiful; then I think it's hard.
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What we want to do is put a price on greenhouse gases. Because if they're more expensive, businesses will find a way to be more efficient or switch to solar or hydro or wind power. So that will reduce emissions.
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I love sailing but hate cruise ships.
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I'm not going to be able to play it like somebody else.
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When I got into college, I found what ultimately became my life's work. I couldn't sleep at night, I was so excited about it. So I'm attracted to people who play at that level. They actually want to play in their professional life.
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They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more.
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If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater suggest that he wear a tail.
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I don't want to just go out and do song to song to song. I like to create things before the song actually kicks in, little things you do to excite the crowd.
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I've admired historical clothes like Victorian gowns since I was a child, and it's what motivated me to go into fashion.
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'She's Dynamite' was a 100 years ago, and I recorded that song because the company thought that it was a great song and it was hot. That was the beginning of rock n' roll, and I guess they thought it would be a BB King version of rock n' roll.
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I think the sensitivity that you need to create certain things sometimes would spill over into things that shouldn't have bothered me.
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Sometimes you have to exercise your insanity, to really make it strong.
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I don't know why I get cast in a lot of period pieces. Stephen Fry told me that I had a face for period, that I look like someone from 1920.
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The alarming thing in China is the almost total absence of primary care. Even in cities, there are no independent doctors' offices or neighborhood clinics, so people have to go to the hospital for every health care need.
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Whenever I've not known what to do, I've always gone back to the Carter Family because there was nothing like singing with my aunts and my mom to my grandma.
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A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
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The spooks are all cowards. Sunlight is the solution to these things.
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I think a lot of people try to be someone else, and Young Thug really is who he is. I love his melodies, how he dresses, how he carries himself.
