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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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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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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Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.
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I just feel like I haven't grown up yet. I live on my own and I do grown-up things, but there is something about me that is very youthful.
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I found the experience of falling in love or being in love was a death: a death of everything. You kind of watch yourself die in a wonderful way, and you experience for the briefest moment - if you see yourself for a moment through their eyes - everything you believed about yourself gone. In a death-and-rebirth sense.
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If you put someone in a room with no script to direct, they're just going to sit there. Writing scripts is the execution for a show. Then the director takes that and hires people. It's like trying to build a house without any bricks. You need the script. I could build the house, but I have to know how.
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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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.
