Jidenna Theodore Mobisson (Jidenna) Quotes
California was special. It's a place where I learned how to be adventurous, both in style and fashion, but also in terms of the way I think.
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I don't like to say anything good. I feel like I'll jinx myself.
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The world is too violent right now.
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The fact that we live in a world where black people have to strategize so they're not brutalized by police is insane.
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I'm not against technology, but all tools should be used to their best advantage. We should be spending our time on things that have staying power, instead of on the latest thought of the latest blogger - and then moving on quickly to the next blogger.
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In TV, you're always confused because you legitimately don't know what you're doing the next week.
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Sometimes I play cricket, and I play badminton.
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I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness.
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When I was sixteen years old, I was sentenced to two years in prison; the Swedish government changed it, so I could go to a boarding school as part of a social programme. I was in this boarding school with some of the richest kids in Sweden.
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When you read about the best places to work, it's never about salary; it's about catered lunches, the daycare - it's the cool stuff that matters.
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Language does not make one an elite.
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I came up with a story and I wrote it.
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Doing collections, doing fashion is like a non-stop dialogue.
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No one believes more strongly than I do that every Christian should be a theologian. In that sense, we all need to work it out. I want all Christians who can read, to read their Bibles and to read beyond the Bible - to read the history and theology.
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Being in a wheelchair for 30 years. I'm not whining about it because I don't dwell on things I can't do anything about, you know. I never really think about until somebody mentions it. I did take a bullet.
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I started making music with my band in the '80s, so I am more product of post punk than classical music, and I have always carried on this way.
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I'm a cynic about corporate democracy and boards.
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It is a matter of simple fact that Icelanders have always been notoriously indolent.
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I had my group of friends, you know, like my real group of friends, and then I had, like, party friends.
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I find that when I watch films where the villain is more complex, I find that it makes the heroes more complex and ultimately, in the story, more interesting.
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I always loved Little Anthony and the Imperials. They were like the precursors of the Temptations. I loved their music.
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I believe the reason for my early independence is sport, through which I learnt at an early stage to take care of myself and be disciplined.
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California was special. It's a place where I learned how to be adventurous, both in style and fashion, but also in terms of the way I think.
