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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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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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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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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Whether we like it or not, men and women are not the same in nature, temperament, emotions and emotional responses.
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I think that my mother, Frances Dorothy Peck, modeled her whole life on that of Scarlett O'Hara.
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When you start directing movies at the age of 24, you're just a kid; you don't necessarily even have the experiences to add to the story. You're working off of instinct and raw emotions and raw talent, and hopefully it's the same trajectory as growing as a person.
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Sometimes I think fashion is more of a conversation between men than it is for women.
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Poets speak of hope in ladies smiles, but give me a smirk any day, I say.
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I really like guys who have confidence, but not the cocky over-the-top confidence.
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You look at how Barack Obama has had to conduct himself as President. It reminds me of Jackie Robinson, how he had to be very careful to reassure people that this was all right. And you still have people trying to tear him down. They make up all sorts of lies, with the goal of making him seem illegitimate.
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For slaves to fashion, the rules are made to be broken.
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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.
