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'm a big crier in general. The right life insurance commercial will take me out for a couple of days.
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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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Someone told me that having a baby is like having your heart walking around outside of your body, and I didn't understand it until I had a baby. Now, like, everything he does literally crushes my heart. In a great way. And then if he's in pain, it's like my whole endeavor is to make sure he's not in pain.
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I'm a lot more observational than personal in my writing. My writing is mostly a lot of questions without answers.
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Failure on the other hand is infectious. The world is full of charming failures (for all charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others) and unless the writer is quite ruthless with these amiable footlers, they will drag him down with them.
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Purpose of counter-intelligence action is to disrupt Black Panther Party and it is immaterial whether facts exist to substantiate the charge. If facts are present it aids in the success of the proposal but the Bureau feels … that disruption can be accomplished without facts to back it up.
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It's better to do your purpose imperfectly than to do someone else's purpose perfectly.
