Jidenna Theodore Mobisson (Jidenna) Quotes
It's better to do your purpose imperfectly than to do someone else's purpose perfectly.
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I'm from New York, so I'm not a big driver.
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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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I can always go back to education.
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I'm a plethora of stolen jokes and kitschy references.
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The whites come to applaud a Negro performer just like the colored do. When you've got the respect of white and colored, you can ease a lot of things.
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Laws are to be enforced justly but firmly, with an iron hand. This is the case anywhere, even in a family.
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It is totally unacceptable that there are countries with no paediatric cardiac surgeries.
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I think part of my reputation has to do with the difficult roles I've played. Actors do tend to get identified with their characters.
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One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
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Anyone with the right mix of parental paranoia and entrepreneurial moxie can make a fortune by selling parents the equipment we think will keep us one step ahead of our kids.
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Sometimes it's nice just being in your own room and having a quiet night and relaxing and getting ready for the game.
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Abraham Lincoln was killed by the forces of white supremacy.
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It's an infinite creative universe to explore so why chase conservative options?
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At 9 P.M., everything goes off - and it's hard. But it's something you've got to do. I'm wasting my life.
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It is of the highest importance to provide equal access to the labour market. Governments should act to establish equitable employment standards and penalise racial discrimination.
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The less I behave like Whistler's mother the night before, the more I look like her the morning after.
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I'm actually developing a project so that I can have a lead.
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I feel like woman was brought to this world to have family and kids.
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A moral choice in its basic terms appears to be a choice that favors survival: a choice made in favor of life.
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The great armies, accumulated to provide security and preserve the peace, carried the nations to war by their own weight.
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Life is tragic and absurd, and none of it has any purpose at all.
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When you get just a complete sense of blackness or void ahead of you, that somehow the future looks an impossible place to be, and the direction you are going seems to have no purpose, there is this word despair which is a very awful thing to feel.
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It's better to do your purpose imperfectly than to do someone else's purpose perfectly.
