Jidenna Theodore Mobisson (Jidenna) Quotes

I think hard-core capitalism tends to commercialize everything.

Jidenna Theodore Mobisson

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• My father was a civil servant in northern India where I was born. As a boy I saw the dire effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially on women and children. It often seemed that the only thing separating me from them was luck.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Women
  • Children
  • Father

• It comes down to a question of attention: it's difficult to use the Net distractedly, unlike the television or the radio.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Attention
  • Question
  • Television

• It is possible that blondes also prefer gentlemen.

  

  Mamie Van Doren
  • Possible
  • Prefer
  • Blondes

• In order for me to be successful... In order to be a great artist - musician, actor, painter, whatever - you must be able to be private in public at all times. That is what we do.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Great
  • Artist
  • Successful

• At the risk of sounding like Virginia Woolf, I could live on £700 a year.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Live
  • Risk
  • Year

• I have many weaknesses, but I have one strength. When I do something, I do it 300 percent. I'm not a middle man.

  

  Lapo Elkann
  • Man
  • Strength
  • Percent

• Doing representations of real people is not my strongpoint as a visual artist, and I know that.

  

  Nate Powell
  • People
  • Real
  • Know

• My mother was a trained nurse, and she'd tell me that patients would fight as they were administered anaesthetic, grappling to get the gas mask off their face.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Mother
  • Fight
  • Nurse

• I was amazed to realize that for many Westerners, Scheherezade was considered a lovely but simple-minded entertainer, someone who relates innocuous tales and dresses fabulously. In our part of the world, Scheherezade is perceived as a courageous heroine and is one of our rare female mythological figures.

  

  Fatema Mernissi
  • World
  • Simple
  • Realize

• My most profound growth as a writer came when I joined an online critique group. What a harrowing, terrifying, wonderful experience that was.

  

  Rae Carson
  • Experience
  • Growth
  • Profound

• I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Live
  • Government
  • Happiness

• He who is contented is rich.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Rich
  • He
  • Contented

• To read a paper book is another experience: you can do it on a ship, on the branch of a tree, on your bed, even if there is a blackout.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Experience
  • Book
  • Tree

• Vince Vaughn is a genuine person, awesome guy. He'll come to a lot of my shows. It's not that often that you can meet someone as cool as Vince.

  

  Dane Cook
  • Guy
  • Cool
  • Awesome

• It was interesting to shoot history as it happens, without anyone demanding a huge story.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • History
  • Interesting
  • Story

• You don't have to work for Google, or any of the other firms encouraging staff to pursue personal projects on company time, to use slowness to unlock your creativity. Anyone can do it. Start by clearing space in your schedule for rest, daydreaming and serendipity. Take breaks away from your desk, especially when you get stuck on a problem.

  

  Carl Honore
  • Time
  • Work
  • Space

• Sherry is dull, naturally dull; but it must have taken him a great deal of pains to become what we now see him. Such an excess of stupidity, sir, is not in Nature.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Great
  • Nature
  • Taken

• Cruelty to animals is an enormous injustice; so is expecting those on the lowest rung of the economic ladder to do the dangerous, soul-numbing work of slaughtering sentient beings on our behalf.

  

  Victoria Moran
  • Work
  • Soul

• We're pretty good at putting bunts down and really good at hitting. I know as a pitcher, when you face a pitcher you know can hit, that's not fun. I think taking pride in that, and being able to hit helps your own cause.

  

  Jacob deGrom
  • Good
  • Fun
  • Pretty

• I really liked the idea of playing that kind of optimistic, super-intense, go-get-'em spirit combined with being a little bit of an outsider. I am really drawn to girls of that age in general, who believe they can be a waitress, scientist, actress, a dentist, a zookeeper...and who really aren't boy-crazy.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • Believe
  • Age
  • Crazy

• I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the metal.

  

  Ice T
  • Up
  • Men
  • Think

• I was able to walk at 5. I had to be able to walk in order to be mainstreamed into public school. And my father worked day and night to teach me how to walk. And I think what's so amazing about this is the fact that he was told that I would never walk. And he decided that he was going to try.

  

  Maysoon Zayid
  • School
  • Father
  • Night

• I'm with you. I'm with everybody. I'm with everybody, look, I'm self-funding. I have no oil company. I have no special interest. I have no lobbyists.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Interest
  • Company
  • Special

• I think hard-core capitalism tends to commercialize everything.

  

  Jidenna Theodore Mobisson