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 definitely want my fans to know that I'm here to stay, and I'm going to continue to give them hot music.

  

  Flo Rida
  • Music
  • Want
  • Know

• 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

• You go to college not only for the latest knowledge but also to meet people from different backgrounds. That's the genius of the American higher-education system compared with the Europeans'. We don't simply skim the elite.

  

  Donna Shalala
  • People
  • Different
  • American

• The public is even more pessimistic about the economy than even the most bearish economists are.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Economy
  • More
  • Economists

• If the Earth gets hit by an asteroid, it's game over. It's control-alt-delete for civilization.

  

  Bill Nye
  • Game
  • Earth
  • Control

• Unless you go forward then you are going back.

  

  Greg Lake
  • Going
  • Forward
  • Unless

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

  

  Jidenna Theodore Mobisson