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When I originally came to the U.S., my mother came with a couple hundred dollars to her name. I didn't know we were struggling because she hid that from me.
Jidenna
When
Originally
Came
To
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The one thing that I learner in college, actually, was that you may reach tremendous highs and tremendous lows.
Jidenna
The
One
Thing
That
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I thought I had everything going for me. I wasn't listening to nobody. And my dad was like, 'Uh-uh, you can't make money from music.
Jidenna
Thought
Had
Everything
Going
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My father raised me to build computers, hardware. Literally, as an 8 year old, I had a soldering iron and circuit boards, and this was in neighbourhoods that wouldn't have a whole lot of money or anything. And I figured out ways to just hustle.
Jidenna
My
Father
Raised
Me
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If we can believe in our own value, then we won't try to denigrate and diss and just roast women all the time.
Jidenna
If
We
Can
Believe
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The most important thing for me is the thing I strive for.
Jidenna
The
Most
Important
Thing
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It's better to do your purpose imperfectly than to do someone else's purpose perfectly.
Jidenna
It's
Better
Do
Your
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In Brooklyn, all the kids call me the 'Willy Wonka of the Hood.'
Jidenna
In
Brooklyn
All
The
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For me, I wear a suit because I need to remember what's happened before me.
Jidenna
For
Me
Wear
Suit
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I think a lot of people try to be someone else, and Young Thug really is who he is. I love his melodies, how he dresses, how he carries himself.
Jidenna
Young
Thug
Think
People
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We're social beings, and I need to know and remember where I came from.
Jidenna
We
Are
Social
Being
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When I was a boy, I was sagging my pants like everyone else. Some boys become men and continue to sag their pants because that's their form of rebellion.
Jidenna
When
I
Was
Boy
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First of all, I respect The Game. He's trail-blazed for artists like myself. I appreciate him, having - living in L.A. myself and knowing what he stands for and what he stood for.
Jidenna
First
Of
All
Respect
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I started singing because it was a natural evolution in hip-hop to me. Without Prince, I wouldn't have embraced that. I wouldn't have been able to embrace me.
Jidenna
Started
Singing
Because
Was
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The first time I stepped on an NBA court I became a businessman.
LeBron James
Became
Businessman
Court
First
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When you work out or you're doing anything active, it's more fun as a group. You may lose track of the time, and the next thing you know, you're working out for two hours because you're having fun.
LeBron James
Active
Anything
Because
Doing
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My mom and I have always been there for each other. We had some tough times, but she was always there for me.
LeBron James
Always
Been
Each
Had
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LeBron James
Impact
Make
Plays
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I need music. It's like my heartbeat, so to speak. It keeps me going no matter what's going on - bad games, press, whatever!
LeBron James
Bad
Games
Going
Heartbeat
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Basketball is my passion, I love it. But my family and friends mean everything to me. That's what's important. I need my phone so I can keep in contact with them at all times.
LeBron James
Basketball
Contact
Everything
Family
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My game is really played above time. I don't say that like I'm saying I'm ahead of my time. I'm saying, like, if I'm on the court and I throw a pass, the ball that I've thrown will lead my teammate right where he needs to go, before he even knows that that's the right place to go to.
LeBron James
Above
Ahead
Ball
Before
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LeBron James
Fans
Hometown
ILove
Love
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There are some teams and logos you see, no matter where you are in the world, and you know exactly who they are and what they mean.
LeBron James
Exactly
Know
Logos
Matter
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In 1999, I just came out of putting out the song 'Vivrant Thing' and 'Breathe and Stop' off the 'Amplified' album. Clive Davis signed me to Arista.
Q-Tip
Album
Amplified
Breathe
Came
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It's called 'I Wanna Thank You,' and I'm encouraging everybody out there to blog, Tweet, Facebook, anything about it. Let's sign a petition. The petition is called 'Busta Rhymes Make 'I Wanna Thank You' Your First Single.'
Q-Tip
About
Anything
Blog
Encouraging
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I feel like Obama in a way. His idea that hope means not shrinking from a fight; it's the courage to reach for something. My music is that. Those are principles I try to embody.
Q-Tip
Courage
Embody
Feel
Fight
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Q-Tip
Expectations
Industry
Manage
Me
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I read the Koran and it appealed to me. At the time I was agnostic and it really breathed spiritually back into me. For me it's really a cushion; it's cool, I'm cool with it.
Q-Tip
Agnostic
Appealed
Back
Breathed
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I definitely move to the beat of my own drummer and man, he's not playing something anyone has heard before. It's pretty cool, though. Pretty cool.
Q-Tip
Anyone
Beat
Before
Cool
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The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone in checking this mad, wicked folly of 'Women's Rights'. It is a subject which makes the Queen so furious that she cannot contain herself.
Queen Victoria
Anxious
Cannot
Checking
Contain
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Everybody grows but me.
Queen Victoria
Everybody
Attitude
Grows
Me
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Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
Queen Victoria
Calm
Events
Great
Irritate
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A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.
Queen Victoria
Act
Amusement
Generally
Marriage
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For a man to strike any women is most brutal, and I, as well as everyone else, think this far worse than any attempt to shoot, which, wicked as it is, is at least more comprehensible and more courageous.
Queen Victoria
Any
Attempt
Brutal
Comprehensible
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When I think of a merry, happy, free young girl - and look at the ailing, aching state a young wife generally is doomed to - which you can't deny is the penalty of marriage.
Queen Victoria
Aching
Deny
Doomed
Free
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According to my parents, I just started drumming when I was two. I traveled with them from five to seven on the road, playing percussion. Between 8 and 12, my dad sort of prepared me by teaching me every aspect of road life.
Questlove
According
Aspect
Between
Dad
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Classical music requires an immense amount of concentration, and I don't know if I would've been that committed to that particular life.
Questlove
Amount
Been
Classical
Classical Music
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I have a lot of those 'Forrest Gump,' I-was-there moments.
Questlove
Lot
Have
Moments
Those
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I've come to the conclusion that the average person can do about four things a day, like four real things a day.
Questlove
About
Average
Average Person
Come
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During the 2008 election, I made clear to the Obama campaign that I don't think it's wise for me to force my personal political agenda on anyone.
Questlove
Agenda
Anyone
Campaign
Clear
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In the 2000s, I became an artist. I started preserving and educating. I became more obsessed with making iPod playlists for people.
Questlove
Artist
Became
Educating
IPod
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Questlove
About
Cartoons
Me
Parents
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The president is just the coach of a football team. You need the right support, the right stadium, the right players, the right staff. An excellent coach is not going to win games.
Questlove
Coach
Excellent
Football
Football Team
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I'm a 24-hour tweet machine, I'm a 24-hour blogger. When there's no pressure on me, I can talk and write and lecture with the best of them. But put a deadline on me and I start getting writer's block.
Questlove
Best
Block
Deadline
Getting
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I think the music comes first, then comes the fashion, and thus, the lifestyle. I believe it starts with music, and then the person delivering it delivers the lifestyle, the fashion. Madonna is a great example of that.
Questlove
Believe
Delivering
Example
Fashion
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I felt your response was ill -timed, knowing those leaders were mourning. I apologize if it came out wrongly, or rudely.
Femi Adesina
Response
Leaders
Apologize
Wrong
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I don't have friends, and it's hard for me to make new friends. Right now, the people that are in my life are the people that I work with.
Questlove
Friends
Hard
Life
Make
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Our lives are like these footprints. One day the tide will come. May we live a meaningful life and be blessed with children that will bless the world.
JJC Skillz
Lives
Footprints
Meaningful
Bless
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Man tends to increase at a greater rate than his means of subsistence.
Charles Darwin
Greater
Means
Rate
Tends
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People from different parts of the world can respond to the same story if it says something to them about their own history and their own experience.
Chinua Achebe
History
About
Parts
Story
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