Jidenna Theodore Mobisson (Jidenna) Quotes
My style is not specific to the antebellum South, but it's heavily inspired by the Jim Crow era.
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One of the things we urge Y-Combinator companies to do is to have profitability in grasp. If you need to get profitable before your A round of money, you ought to be able to do that.
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I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.
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I try to talk about policy issues intelligently, I try very hard to avoid thought bubbles. I make sure my speeches are well researched and footnoted. I make sure I am not talking through my hat.
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I've always made sequels, even when I was making Super 8 movies if the audience liked it.
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I think I was given a gift to play golf and to be mentally strong.
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A busybody's work is never done.
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I live with my family. I moved to L.A. eight years ago, and it's the same room. But I'm looking now. I might get a condo.
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It's unacceptable to just sit on the couch and say I'm not doing anything. You've got to get out and do everything you can.
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Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man.
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As we continue to step up our investment in education, we must not sidestep our commitment to the principle of local control.
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One is that President Clinton, in his first two years of his term, did not govern as he had campaigned.
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How are we doing in the electronics field as opposed to, you know, we hear how advanced the Japanese are? Do you think we're still pretty competitive? Oh, yes.
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I'm not graceful.
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The day I became a hero, my dream was realised. Everything else is a bonus.
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There's obviously a group who enjoys what Tyler Perry is putting out there. And why fault them? And there's a group that loves the things that Spike does. So they should enjoy that, too. Is it my taste? Maybe not, but I'm not going to fault anybody for doing what they're doing as long as people are showing up.
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It was hard to write or compose... we just had to go back and finish making songs. If we make 20 songs, we'll throw away 10.
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I see genres as generating sets of rules or conventions that are only interesting when they are subverted or used to disguise the author's intent. My own way of doing this is to attempt a sort of whimsical alchemy, whereby seemingly incompatible genres are brought into unlikely partnerships.
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BitCoin is actually an exploit against network complexity. Not financial networks, or computer networks, or social networks. Networks themselves.
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Over the years you encounter just about every kind of crime. It doesn't harden you, but you become capable of reporting on just about anything human beings can do. However, any time we're dealing with the murder of a child it is always difficult.
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I had many opportunities to get behind products in the past, and I was always careful to evaluate all of them. I will not put my name to shoddy items.
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On the third stage is used for medicine, it is not known to the public.
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Yes, we started out as the Sex Maggots, then became the Goo Goo Dolls, well, and we're still the Goo Goo Dolls!
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My style is not specific to the antebellum South, but it's heavily inspired by the Jim Crow era.
