Jidenna Theodore Mobisson (Jidenna) Quotes
While the majority of my childhood memories are beautiful, I also have experienced the challenges that Nigeria has faced since independence.
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The products in my bathroom are pretty minimal. Issey Miyake makes great cologne, and I use everything from Zirh, especially their shave scream. I really like Mario Badesco aftershave, too. It's amazing.
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My style of singing is very much Latin jazz meets Latin and a little bit of rhythm and blues. When I do ballads, my fans love it. They want to listen to my classics. They want to party.
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'In A World...' changed my life a thousand per cent. I feel thankful that something I believed in so much - I love dialect, so I dedicated five years of my life to making a film about it - yielded such rewards. It led to 'Man Up,' as well as 'No Escape,' which comes out later this year... two movies where I am the female lead.
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Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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What I want is to respond to the challenge posed by the mass media - to permit the novel to say what can only be said by narrative - to allow it to be itself.
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I didn't start working out until college. But in college I could feel my body changing, and I knew that if I didn't make some changes, I was going to go in the wrong direction.
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Fashion breaks my heart.
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The Talented Tenth of the Negro race must be made leaders of thought and missionaries of culture among their people.
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I feel I will always have that spirit bear with me, so I will always feel protected.
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Of course it's fantastic to have bands formed in garages, but there is a market for other types of music.
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Both spiritual companionship and spiritual motherliness are not limited to the physical wife and mother relationship, but they extend to all people with whom woman comes into contact.
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French fries. I love them. Some people are chocolate and sweets people. I love French fries. That and caviar.
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If it's something quite low-key then I'll often do my own makeup. But for something like a premiere, it's good to have a makeup artist because they know what they're doing.
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Typically, a book takes me about a year to write.
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Just because we eat together does not mean we eat right: Domino's alone delivers a million pizzas on an average day.
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It really means a lot that I won the gold medal - but I woke up the next morning expecting to feel different. I felt the same.
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I learned Spanish at home and, since half my family doesn't speak English, it's my first language.
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Sometimes in a big theatre, you have about, probably, six yards sometimes between you and the first person in the audience. It's almost like you've got to jump across a little pond to get there and then keep moving.
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I like 'X Factor' as much as the next person, but I do get overwhelmed with the amount of reality TV. It's such cheap programming and such a load of rubbish, most of it.
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Being an Olympian, I always have this strong belief in excellence.
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After 14 years of running DonorsChoose.org as someone who had never written a line of code, I did do a three-month night school course. After all these years, I could at least speak some of the same vocabulary and have a first-hand appreciation for what my colleagues on the engineering team are doing.
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I got a PBS mind in an MTV world.
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While the majority of my childhood memories are beautiful, I also have experienced the challenges that Nigeria has faced since independence.
