Jay-Z (Shawn Corey Carter) Quotes
You can put a new shirt on your back, slide a fresh chain around your neck, and accumulate all the money and power in the world, but at the end of the day those are just layers. Money and power don't change you, they just further expose your true self.
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We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
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I'm not comparing myself at all to him, but I like the idea that Ernest Hemingway always wrote about certain things he knew, he knew the ins and outs, back to fronts of what he was talking about. I love that as an inspiration for myself, to keep it true to what you know.
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My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.
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It was really weird dealing with the media. I had no idea how to handle it.
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I don't know if it's irrational, and I would never say this before, but I think I'm a little bit agoraphobic when I'm in huge crowds of people. I mean, it's claustrophobic, probably – small spaces and large groups of people, anxiety rises for me.
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A Nicklaus Design golf course is done by the guys in my company that I work with, that have been trained in my vision, and they do what they think I might do. They might come in the office and ask me questions and I'd certainly answer their questions, but I'm not involved in the site visits or anything else.
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I grew up in Cyprus and Egypt, these fantastic places I remember fondly.
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There was a special challenge in describing the awful childhood of a person who happens to be my own husband. It was very painful at times, for both of us.
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There are so many different criteria for my collecting, and I have to confess that the goalposts do shift. But obviously, with my background, I am particularly drawn to things that have been documented in contemporary magazines.
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History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.
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I will never support any tax increase on middle-income earners, ever... If you're not going to eliminate loopholes and exemptions, then I wouldn't support lowering rates.
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But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.
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The only thing I miss on stage is the falsetto.
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To suggest that you can't be both a mother who is completely in love with her babies, and a professional who is tough and tenacious, is ridiculous.
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I get very bored easily. I'm a child of the Internet or whatever; I want more and more of new and interesting things.
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It's an honor to live in and serve the great City of Los Angeles. I'm also immensely grateful for the support I've received from Ireland.
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I want to do good for Israel. My philosophy is let's do good stuff, and let's see what happens. And que sera, sera.
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Actually, I bought one share of Warren Buffett's stock, probably 35 years ago, in order to read his letters.
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The area out at Area 51 that was part of the Operation Plumbbob test continues to be contaminated. It was not cleaned up until the '80s.
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The reason I had unfaithfulness in one of my marriages is because I was too patriotic.
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The body expresses our very being. The striving for beauty is inborn among the Aryan.
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The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege.
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You can put a new shirt on your back, slide a fresh chain around your neck, and accumulate all the money and power in the world, but at the end of the day those are just layers. Money and power don't change you, they just further expose your true self.
