Jidenna Theodore Mobisson (Jidenna) Quotes
If I'm shopping at the Gap or Old Navy, I'm saying that I'm an ordinary person: I don't want to be seen; I don't want to stand out. That's a statement. If I'm wearing a leather jacket, there's something about me that's kind of a rebel. So everybody says something, whether they want to or not.
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At 21 years old, I could produce 400 people like that.
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All religions have been made by men.
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NRDC has helped bring hope spots to more of our shared ocean waters. We helped draft and pass a California law creating a network of underwater parks stretching from the Oregon border to the Mexican border.
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It takes me about a week and a half to really analyze a game - play by play.
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We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.
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I had stories that needed more space than the hour and a half or two hours a movie gives you.
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The so-called skills gap is really a gap in education, and that affects all of us.
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Carving out an identity for yourself is important so I'm trying to do that as well.
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The best, most successful managers in the modern era are those who can keep a player happy even if he is not in the team. Given the size of the squads and the use of rotation nowadays, that's tougher than it's ever been.
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Novelists get to say plenty in their massive tomes; rock singers only get four-minute songs with two verses and a chorus' worth of lyrics, and so there's a real pleasure in accessing the intelligence behind the music, even if it doesn't qualify as 'great literature.'
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In the decline of the day, near Kentucky river, as we ascended the brow of a small hill, a number of Indians rushed out of a thick cane-brake upon us, and made us prisoners.
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In literature, the ghost is almost always a metaphor for the weight of the past. I don't believe in them in the traditional sense.
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I think people are frightened of women making big decisions.
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I don't have a process; I just feel it. My book on acting would be very short.
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Probably the only way Woody Allen and I are similar is that he has a lot to say about Nietzsche.
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There's an explosion of Indian fiction of all kinds, from military thrillers to chicklit. I think that's exciting.
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Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.
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When I became governor, spending actually increased 28 percent my first term. Revenue increased 42 percent my first term without raising anybody's taxes. We did it because we had more taxpayers with more taxable income. That's how you get the revenue up. We did that without raising anybody's taxes.
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Coping with injuries is always difficult for athletes because all we want to do is, basically, to have our best performances unhindered.
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Essentially, I'm untrained, so I just go with my imagination and try to put myself as solidly as I can into the shoes of whatever person I'm going to be playing.
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I'm a writer, and I will write what I want to write.
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My mother likes to say that I was conceived to shop - not just born to shop. My whole life as a child was following her and her sister and friends around on her shopping trips.
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Rebels learn the rules better than the rule-makers do. Rebels learn where the holes are, where the rules can best be breached. Become an expert at the rules. Then break them with creativity and style.
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If I'm shopping at the Gap or Old Navy, I'm saying that I'm an ordinary person: I don't want to be seen; I don't want to stand out. That's a statement. If I'm wearing a leather jacket, there's something about me that's kind of a rebel. So everybody says something, whether they want to or not.
