Jidenna Theodore Mobisson (Jidenna) Quotes
The most important thing for me is the thing I strive for. But I also hope when I play my songs for people - adult, children, mostly children - that they feel mighty, they feel noble, they feel like warriors. And they feel like they can do anything in the world because that's how I feel.
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I struggle if I have chaos around me, but at the same time, if I don't have it, I'm uncomfortable. It's a strange thing: If I don't have chaos, I create it.
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It's more fun to arrive a conclusion than to justify it.
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I never wear matching socks. It's kind of a thing that I have!
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My dad only ever talked about two things: bicycles and Mercedes.
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When you actually fall in love, no one sees that other person the way that you do.
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If I do something caring for a friend, I have no doubt in my mind they would do it for me.
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When the news is good, the BBC view is: 'Get the government out of the picture quickly, don't allow them to say anything about it.' When the news is bad: 'Let's all dump on the government.'
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I really wanted to break the mold of what modern touring is right now.
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Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone.
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It is a myth of publishers that people want to read easy things.
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Even the worst Bond movies, there's something to love about them.
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If you wanted to build an Internet startup in 2005, you had to buy your own servers and hire someone to manage it. Now, that's unheard of.
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In sport, a massive amount is to do with genetics.
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Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.
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The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull. He therefore approaches his task with full humility, and avoids clever tricks like the plague.
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I said to myself as Junction Point embarked on the Epic Mickey journey that, worst case, we'd be 'a footnote in Disney history.' Looking back on it, I think we did far better than that.
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The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.
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I guess I'm quite practical. Or at least like to think I am.
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We want the city back on its feet. We want to have jobs for the city.
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Argentina and Burma. I have been to most of the countries in the world, but not those two. I want to shoot doves in Argentina. Burma, of course, because no one has really been there.
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Make it your profitable habit to carefully study facial expressions. You can see the entire human drama in a face; you can tell its owner's history.
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Those who have heard me speak from time to time know that quite often I cite the observation of that great American author, Mark Twain, who said, history does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.
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I am beginning to think that love itself is never wrong. It is what love can drive people to do that is the problem.
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The most important thing for me is the thing I strive for. But I also hope when I play my songs for people - adult, children, mostly children - that they feel mighty, they feel noble, they feel like warriors. And they feel like they can do anything in the world because that's how I feel.
