Jidenna Theodore Mobisson (Jidenna) Quotes
I describe myself as a big kid with an old soul, I'm very playful whimsical, but I definitely have that old soul as well.
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My husband and I click wedding rings sometimes and say, 'By the power of the Castle of Greyskull!'
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I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.
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People tend to associate fairies with princesses, but they couldn't be more different. Princesses have dynastic and domestic pressures, and they get parked on glass hills. Fairies don't have families. They don't clean or cook. They sip nectar from flowers and dance by the light of the moon.
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I don't do fake. That's the first thing you should know about me. I'm not one to put on airs or change my demeanor depending on where I am or who I am talking to.
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Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.
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Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
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I feel privileged that I've been able to get anywhere, with my quote-unquote limited mainstream appeal, given my race and subject matter. Of course, I always have my masters to fall back on.
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My first memory in life is grilling my thumb to the griddle in our restaurant on Cape Cod.
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When people go through tragic circumstances, it's not that there is no love there, but it's so hard to deal with and sometimes the gap starts to happen.
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I cook more theoretically than I do practically. My job is creative, and in the kitchen, the biggest part of my creativity is theoretical.
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Let's overwhelm the Castro regime with iPhones, iPads, American cars and American ingenuity.
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It's very trying on a marriage when you're doing a one hour show, week after week after week. You don't have enough time for people that maybe you should have top priority.
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Is it not in the most absolute simplicity that real genius plies its pinions the most wonderfully?
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I have to get a workout in in the morning. Once my day starts, I'll have the best intentions, and it still won't happen: one of the kids needs to be picked up somewhere, I have to hop on a conference call, or I'm just tired. So I get it done in the A.M.
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If the U.N. didn't exist, we'd be inventing it right now.
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In Westerns you were permitted to kiss your horse but never your girl.
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Toleration is the best religion.
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I was trying to be Mary Tyler Moore. I loved her in 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'
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It's a drag not to have your own plane, man. That way, you could go where you wanna go when you wanna go.
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I'm not here to impose Sharia law, and I'm not here to have a message about disability being inspirational - I'm here to make people laugh. But when I can layer things and make people not only laugh but question, make people not only laugh but be offended... I have to do that.
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When you're young that's when you feel like you can change the world. Then you get older and you buy a house and have kids, and you don't want to be so bold anymore.
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People who want to rise above a well-cooked meal and a well-tailored garment, are out of their spiritual minds.
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My real motivation came from my quest for music videos to have the equally soul-touching emotional resonance that straight music does. Honestly, I'm not sure they ever can.
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I describe myself as a big kid with an old soul, I'm very playful whimsical, but I definitely have that old soul as well.
