Jidenna Theodore Mobisson (Jidenna) Quotes
First of all, I respect The Game. He's trail-blazed for artists like myself. I appreciate him, having - living in L.A. myself and knowing what he stands for and what he stood for.
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I wish the world could better know this country for what it really is. Not just a greedy economic giant crouching fearfully behind its walls, not just a panoplied warrior nervously fingering his weapons. What is this, is a people who gather together in thousands to give a people's government its essential vitality.
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You know Texas is - even more now that Enron has bit the dust - it's held up on the back of small businesses.
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Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.
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I think we have a real obligation when we do have animals in captivity to understand their needs and to care for them as well as we can.
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The Bible is very clear about one thing: Using politics to create fairness is a sin.
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There's millions of gay people in the world. In 2011, you've got to hide that you're gay? Like, you know what I'm saying? Like, be real.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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Sometimes new voices have the most spectacular vision. It is uncluttered and organic.
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I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.
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The kind of cynical politics of divide and conquer, that's shameful stuff, and I don't know - people live their life like that, but I don't know how they look back and feel good about themselves.
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The secret to everything for me is doing yoga every day. It does do nice things for your body, but it also kind of calms you down and chills you out. Other than that, I don't really drink alcohol and I always take my makeup off at night!
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Teenagers did not have, before rock 'n' roll and rhythm-and-blues - they did not have any type of music they could call their own once they got over 4 or 5 years old until they were well into their 20's and considered adults.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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Those who go along get along.
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If I can help a kid feel more comfortable in their skin because they're struggling with maybe the things I struggled with in high school, that's great.
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Always give a word or sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, or even a stranger, if in a lonely place.
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Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young, but I have trouble remembering one line of a novel I just finished reading.
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I've never set out to seduce my reader. I don't see him at all clearly.
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I started dancing when I was about 15 or 16 in my high school drama club, and then I liked it so much that they offered dual enrollment classes. So my senior year, I ended up taking college dance courses while I was in high school because I had good grades.
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Being the youngest of five, you're adored, you're fueled with confidence.
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I have a mind like a steel trap. Stuff gets in there and WHAM! it never gets back out again.
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It makes me feel better about missing a game. I hate to miss, but if we lose, I'll feel even worse about the job I'm doing.
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First of all, I respect The Game. He's trail-blazed for artists like myself. I appreciate him, having - living in L.A. myself and knowing what he stands for and what he stood for.
