Jay-Z (Shawn Corey Carter) Quotes
Be fluid. Treat each project differently. Be water, man. The best style is no style. Because styles can be figured out. And when you have no style they can't figure you out.Jay-Z
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I have no special talent, you know. I never took a writing course before I began to write.
Patricia Reilly Giff -
In my books, there is no 'ugly duckling turning into a beautiful swan' syndrome because if you look at the Hansel and Gretel syndrome, it was a mistake. It wasn't a duckling, it was a cygnet, and that's why it turned into a swan. The duckling should with any luck turn into a nice clucking duck and get on with its life. Cluck! Cluck! Cluck!
Maeve Binchy -
Nice to see your home fans boo you. That's what loyal support is.
Wayne Rooney -
That's what fiction writers do: create characters and do terrible things to them for the entertainment of others. If they feel guilty enough, they write happy endings.
Garry Trudeau -
An Englishman will fairly drink as much As will maintain two families of Dutch.
Daniel Defoe -
A lot of fans have been requesting that in-your-face song, a sense of feeling empowered. And 'Good Woman' is that: a relatable song celebrating the good woman. I'm also really proud of the third verse, which I wrote.
La'Porsha Renae
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Vietnam helped me to look at the horror and terror in the hearts of people and realize how we can't aim guns and set booby traps for people we have never spoken a word to. That kind of impersonal violence mystifies me.
Yusef Komunyakaa -
There is evidence that some of al Qaeda's nuclear efforts over the years met with swindles and false leads.
Barton Gellman -
When you see the audiences and the smiling faces at the shows it really makes up for the work that you put in. I have a job I really love so whatever hecticness comes up - I'll just deal with it.
Katarina Witt -
Are you used to entertaining everyone with your tales of drama and conflict? Do you get attention and feel important every time you complain about how awful this man is? Stop settling for attention for the negative stuff in your life.
Karen Salmansohn -
Real parent engagement means establishing meaningful ways for parents to be partners in their children's public education from the beginning - not just when a school is failing. The goal should be to never let a school get to that point.
Randi Weingarten -
At first, I was just trying to sound like DOOM and Eminem, and then I dug out my own voice, I guess.
Thebe Neruda Kgositsile
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The greatest desire of my heart was for the Lord to manifest His will concerning me.
Orson Pratt -
My father's peripatetic career also gave me critical perspective when it came to my own career choices.
Hannah Storm -
I don't think the label makes the artist or the artist makes the label. It's the music that makes everything work or not.
Garth Brooks -
Treat your friends as you do your best pictures, and place them in their best light.
Lady Randolph Churchill -
We acquire the strength we have overcome.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Wait long enough, and people will surprise and impress you.
Randy Pausch
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Even as a kid, I never liked breakfast. I just don't like to eat then. I like to get up and work. I think sticking a whole bunch of carbohydrates in your stomach in the morning is probably the worst way to begin the day.
Candace Bushnell -
Jacopo Belbo didnt understand that he had had his moment and that it would have to be enough for him, for all his life. Not recognizing it, he spent the rest of his days seeking something else, until he damned himself.
Umberto Eco -
While many big-data providers do their best to de-identify individuals from human-subject data sets, the risk of re-identification is very real.
Kate Crawford -
I think I came across Cecil Taylor a bit later, in 65 or 66. That really impressed me - Cecil Taylor is an amazing character... Both his music and the way he approaches the instrument are astonishing.
Luc Ferrari -
Be fluid. Treat each project differently. Be water, man. The best style is no style. Because styles can be figured out. And when you have no style they can't figure you out.
Jay-Z