Jidenna Theodore Mobisson (Jidenna) Quotes

Nothing I'm doing is without its predecessors.

Jidenna Theodore Mobisson

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• When I first started in Malaysia, having a Muslim Malay girl singing and holding a guitar was new to everyone. Even Muslims there had issues with it; they found it weird.

  

  Yuna
  • Girl
  • Singing
  • Weird

• I have for some time urged that a nuclear abolition summit to mark the effective end of the nuclear era be convened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki on the 70th anniversary of the bombings of those cities, with the participation of national leaders and representatives of global civil society.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Time
  • Society
  • Anniversary

• People have become shallower. They view spending, entertaining, seeking leisure and enjoying as the main objectives of their life.

  

  Zhang Yimou
  • People
  • Life
  • View

• I've got spider veins all over my legs, so I wear opaque tights all winter. All sorts of colours.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Winter
  • Legs
  • Spider

• At the risk of sounding like Virginia Woolf, I could live on £700 a year.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Live
  • Risk
  • Year

• I'm now convinced that I'm a doctor. I mean, if someone says they have a pain, I'm like, 'Well, that's your spleen.'

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Pain
  • Now
  • Doctor

• I wrote a song several years ago while I was in college called 'Muscadine Wine.' I really didn't know if it had potential or not, if it was good or bad or what. I played it for my roommates - who I played ball with - one night, and I knew they would tell me the truth. They loved it, and that encouraged me.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Good
  • Truth
  • Bad

• Economic medicine that was previously meted out by the cupful has recently been dispensed by the barrel. These once unthinkable dosages will almost certainly bring on unwelcome after-effects. Their precise nature is anyone's guess, though one likely consequence is an onslaught of inflation.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Nature
  • Economic
  • Medicine

• Iran can never get a nuclear weapon, and it never will as long as I have anything to say about it.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • Long
  • Never
  • Anything

• Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.

  

  Francesco Guicciardini
  • Friends
  • Chance
  • Friendship

• Peace is always beautiful.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Beautiful
  • Peace

• «¿Do you think before speaking or do you speak after thinking?»

  

  Mariano Rajoy
  • Thinking

• Our greatest stupidities may be very wise.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • May
  • Wise

• I was convinced - and I am so still - that the fundamental principles of Christianity have to be proved true by reasoning, and by no other method. Reason, I said to myself, is given us that we may bring everything within the range of its action, even the most exalted ideas of religion. And this certainty filled me with joy.

  

  Albert Schweitzer
  • May
  • True
  • Action

• The people have allowed me to - they've respected my choice of wanting to be like, a little, you know, a baby alchemist, and just trying to mix different cultures together and things that I think are interesting.

  

  Pharrell Williams N.E.R.D.
  • People
  • Different
  • Trying

• I think the harder you work, the more luck you have.

  

  Dave Thomas
  • Work
  • Luck

• I just think that with music, it's kind of like life, and so the people you work with, you generally develop a relationship. You don't have to try to explain things. You just know. It's like you're in the band together and striving for the same goal.

  

  Ariel Rechtshaid
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• My parents took me to the Bronte parsonage in England when I was a teenager. I had a fight with my mum, burst into tears, jumped over a stile and ran out into the moors. It felt very authentic: A moor really is an excellent place to have a temper tantrum.

  

  Eleanor Catton
  • Parents
  • Tears
  • Teenager

• Lies are a little fortress; inside them you can feel safe and powerful. Through your little fortress of lies you try to run your life and manipulate others. But the fortress needs walls, so you build some. These are the justifications for your lies. You know, like you are doing this to protect someone you love, to keep them from feeling pain. Whatever works, just so you feel okay about the lies.

  

  William P. Young
  • Running
  • Pain
  • Powerful

• It is a maxim deeply ingrafted in that dark system, that no character, however upright, is a match for constantly reiterated attacks, however false.

  

  Alexander Hamilton
  • Character
  • Dark

• I'm very excited that my yelling will be featured on the next Evile disc; they're one of my favorite new-ish bands and, in my not-so-humble opinion, the British saviors of thrash metal.

  

  Brian Posehn
  • Opinion
  • Humble

• When we want to know God's will, there are three things which always concur: the inward impulse, the Word of God and the trend of circumstances. Never act until these three things agree.

  

  F. B. Meyer
  • God
  • Three
  • Inward

• Creating and integrating an empowering personal mission statement is one of the most important investments we can make.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Important
  • Purpose
  • Investment

• Nothing I'm doing is without its predecessors.

  

  Jidenna Theodore Mobisson