Jay-Z (Shawn Corey Carter) Quotes
I'm hungry for knowledge. The whole thing is to learn every day, to get brighter and brighter.
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I think the country is very settled in a lot of ways, and we saw that after the Democratic Convention. I think a lot of the bump that we enjoyed came when John Kerry selected John Edwards as his running mate.
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I'm an actor in between jobs right now, so I kind of live the life of a 7-year old.
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Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
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It's the coolest part about writing music. I don't know how other people work, but so much is derived from some amalgamation of all these different songs that I love. That's why they jump all over the place.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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My father was raised in the mountains of New Mexico, and he picked cotton for a dollar a day. He was working for the family from the time he was 7.
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'Love Letter' reminds me of 'Chocolate Factory' and 'Happy People.' It's a little bit of both of those, yeah. I just wanted it to be classy, man. And romantic. And maybe 10 percent sexy.
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Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.
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Sometimes what you mustn't do is just as just as important as what you must do.
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Principles are a dangerous form of social dynamite.
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Our main source of economy is agriculture. What we should do is to use the oil money that we have today to re-fuel agriculture. And so agriculture will be the backbone of the economy of South Sudan.
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It's hardly even noticeable that so many artists, designers and architects live here. It isn't reflected in the cityscape or in the museums. Many of the artists, for example, exhibit around the world, just not in Berlin.
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South Africa is highly politicised; even small issues become politicised, and it becomes quite bitter.
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I have a deep fascination with human nature, with all its virtues and all its defects.
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We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.
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All the sounds of the earth are like music.
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My first priority is trying to protect my family.
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My workout involves cardio, jogging, and yoga as well. I am a firm believer of yoga and meditation.
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I feel that after working a long time, I’ve really learned how to do what I do. I enjoy it. I don’t think there’s anything more satisfying than turning out a good stanza or a good piece of prose. And when you’re satisfied enough, you want to show it to other people. That’s called publication.
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To successfully respond to the myriad of changes that shake the world, transformation into a new style of management is required. The route to take is what I call profound knowledge - knowledge for leadership of transformation.
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If only you knew how little I care. Cowardly or not, as long as he is a good kisser.
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Small businesses have told us that having cash in their pocket is one of the primary things that they need.
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Even a liar tells a hundred truths to one lie; he has to, to make the lie good for anything.
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I'm hungry for knowledge. The whole thing is to learn every day, to get brighter and brighter.
