Jay-Z (Shawn Corey Carter) Quotes

You know the type: loud as a motorbike but wouldn't bust a grape in a fruit fight.

Jay-Z

• Fighting
• Fruit
• Grapes
• Motorbike

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• The thing about 'Dark Knight' is its objective is to set Batman into your world, so that you can imagine the moral dilemmas he faces are exactly parallel to moral dilemmas that you would face in this world, today, if you were out there fighting crime dressed like a bat.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • World
  • Today
  • Fighting

• I'm fighting hard to make the world a better place, and you can, too. Get involved with your community, be a leader, set an example, be passionate, be your best.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • World
  • Community
  • Best

• I'd always wanted to be an action heroine. That's a chick dream, getting to wear a leather bodysuit and be blonde and kick ass. But, what really attracted me to 'Dredd' was the script. It was fantastic! It was about people and characters, and not just about explosions and fighting.

  

  Olivia Thirlby
  • People
  • Dream
  • Action

• I'm not out there to be blocking shots or fighting guys. I'm out there to produce offensively.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Fighting
  • Shots
  • Blocking

• Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Stop
  • Fighting
  • Victory

• No fruit. No veggie.

  

  Bea Arthur
  • Fruit

• We must erase bin Laden's ugly legacy, not extend it: by ending the Patriot Act's erosion of our civil liberties, we can protect the freedoms that make America worth fighting for.

  

  Aaron Swartz
  • America
  • Fighting
  • Ugly

• I have been fighting the best. I am just 26 and have fought in the biggest arenas.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Best
  • Fighting
  • Arena

• The Saints are the elect children of the spouse of Christ, the precious fruit of her body; they are her crown of glory. And when these dear children quit her to reap their eternal reward, the mother retains precious memorials of them and holds up their example to her other children to encourage them to follow their glorious traces.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Up
  • Children
  • Mother

• My music is a little dark, and my lyrics are a little darker. Every day, I'm fighting towards the light.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Music
  • Light
  • Day

• Athletes as role models and heroes is a hoax, a sick hoax. The men and women who are fighting in Iraq, they are the true heroes.

  

  Gale Sayers
  • Men
  • Women
  • True

• Too late for fruit, too soon for flowers.

  

  Walter de La Mare
  • Flowers
  • Fruit
  • Too Late

• There is a clear interest within ISIS to drag Israel into a war with them. If they do so, they will be able to paint Israel as having an alliance with the states fighting against them.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • War
  • Fighting
  • Israel

• Cognition is not fighting, but once someone knows a lot, he will have much to fight for, so much that he will be called a relativist because of it.

  

  Karel Capek
  • Fighting
  • Fight
  • Once

• Just about the entirety of the first album, 'Brown Sugar,' I wrote it, the majority of that record in my bedroom in Richmond. And all of the demos for it were done on a four-track in my bedroom. I think EMI was a little leery of me being in the studio producing it on my own, which is what I was fighting for.

  

  D'Angelo
  • Me
  • Always
  • Fighting

• Therefore, every country has to understand that fighting against international terrorism is not for the sake of the United States, but for the sake of themselves, and, to a larger extent, in the name of stability of international relations.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • Country
  • Fighting
  • Name

• I cannot in good conscience ask my colleagues to expend precious time and energy defending or explaining my past. We need all hands on deck, fighting for the future.

  

  Van Jones
  • Time
  • Good
  • Future

• Relativism is neither a method of fighting, nor a method of creating, for both of these are uncompromising and at times even ruthless; rather, it is a method of cognition.

  

  Karel Capek
  • Fighting
  • Creating
  • Method

• Our people are frustrated when we spend more time fighting among ourselves than focusing on solving the day-to-day challenges they experience.

  

  Jacob Zuma
  • People
  • Time
  • Experience

• If you work in the city long enough, it begins to deal with you on a personal level. Streets reveal their moods. Sometimes the signal light loves you. Sometimes they fight you. When you're hunting for a new building, you hope the city is on your side. You have to use a little bit of thinking--you might call it the process of elimination--and you need a little bit of instinct, but not too much of either. If you think too hard, you overshoot your target and end up at the Pier or the Tenderloin. If you relax and let the city help, the destination does all the work for you.

  

  Scott Adams
  • Thinking
  • Long
  • Fighting

• It was this feeling for a lot of my characters, who are dissidents or banned artists and writers, that they had had to fight living under so much surveillance, and then suddenly they come to America and they're like, I'm not being surveilled - I'm not even being noticed at all.

  

  Molly Antopol
  • America
  • Fighting
  • Surveillance

• Mr. Bergman had a great imagination and saw the possibilities within every one of his actors, and he gave us great challenges. It was very inspiring.

  

  Max von Sydow
  • Great
  • Imagination

• Sometimes maybe it's good to have someone doing a sci-fi show who's not actually necessarily from that background. It also means that sometimes I fall into the most elementary of traps.

  

  Ben Richards
  • Background
  • Traps
  • Sci-Fi

• You know the type: loud as a motorbike but wouldn't bust a grape in a fruit fight.

  

  Jay-Z
  • Fighting
  • Fruit
  • Grapes