Jay-Z (Shawn Corey Carter) Quotes
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When I hit my 20s, I took a chill pill and relaxed because throughout my teens I was churning out an album a year. It was a treadmill of work then recording, promoting and touring.
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Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
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It doesn't work that way, you know, because most parts that you think you'd do well, most other people don't. So they offer you something - The Avengers is a good example... I fitted into that because I came from that sort of background. It's not even acting.
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It's obviously nerve-wracking, because I don't know the ropes really, William is obviously used to it, but I'm willing to learn quickly and work hard.
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To be honest, before I joined the industry, I knew very little about the fashion world, and I hardly knew any name brands. Probably because the price tags were a little too high, and home girl needed to work.
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You learn as you grow up, if you're intelligent - or even three-quarter witted - that there's no free lunch. You pay for things in various ways. Living, loving, everything else is a matter of the same principles: you learn to work with what you have.
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My grandfather was an autoworker, and I have a weapon he manufactured to protect himself from the company that he would carry to work. It's a big iron pipe with a hunk of lead on the head. I think about how far we've come as companies from those days, where workers had to protect themselves from the company.
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But all over Ohio - all over America - men and women are going back to work with the pride of building something stamped 'Made in America.'
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Something like 'The Matrix' would be ideal, something where it's super agents and wire work and special effects - not necessarily running from bombs and shooting people. Something more sleek, like an assassin.
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I've always been a feminist, and what I love in my work is being able to explore a full-sided woman and not patronize her.
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However careful a tramp may be to avoid places where there is abundant work, he cannot always succeed.
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I have one car that works; it's fast and safe: an Audi 5. And I have two old cars that never work: an old Peugeot convertible, and an Alfa Romeo Giulia.
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As a grandson of farmers in downstate Illinois, I have long admired the dedication of farmers to their work and have written about the role of agriculture in American innovation.
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Music really gets me going, so I've always got to make sure I have my iPod to give me energy to work out.
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Anyone who thinks Peter Jackson would fall for market forces around him rather than artistic integrity doesn't know the guy or the body of his work.
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I'm one of the lucky few who never had to face the whole 'Oh, you've had a baby, and now work will have to suffer' bit. It just wasn't a big deal when I got married and had a baby.
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I dance. A lot. I work grief and sadness out of my body when I dance, and I bring in joy and rhythm.
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The President has a wonderful sense of humor, which is one of the reasons it is so much fun to work for him.
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The usefulness of a meeting rises with the square of the number of people present.
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I was a single parent, and I was prohibited from working.
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Who'd have thought the Frisbee would have caught on?
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At the end of the day, I just want the world to live in peace and harmony.
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The notion of someone who is fitting in or trying to become part of a larger family... It's hard to separate that from my own Jewish roots.
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Everybody look at you strange, say you changed Like you work that hard to stay the same.
