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.

Jay-Z

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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.

  

  Imelda May
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• My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.

  

  Natalie Cole
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• It was really weird dealing with the media. I had no idea how to handle it.

  

  Laura Dekker
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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.

  

  Taylor Hanson Hanson
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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.

  

  Pamela Stephenson
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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.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
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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.

  

  Adam Hasner
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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.

  

  Randy Newman
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• The only thing I miss on stage is the falsetto.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
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  • The Only Thing

• 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.

  

  Nancy Grace
  • Love
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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.

  

  Washed Out
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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.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • Great
  • Live
  • Support

• 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.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Good
  • Want
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• Actually, I bought one share of Warren Buffett's stock, probably 35 years ago, in order to read his letters.

  

  Sam Wyly
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• In 1965, when great young white artists in the English-speaking world were successfully re-channeling hillbilly and black music - you know Bob Dylan, Ray Davies, Pete Townsend, Keith Richards - they didn't get any money at first. They were all broke.

  

  Iggy Pop
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• My father is quite conservative and religious, and he's been wanting me to get married since I was 15.

  

  Vikram Chatwal
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• Sometimes you have to step away from what you love in order to learn how to love it again.

  

  Damien Rice
  • Love
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• A privilege may not be a right, but, under the constitution of the country, I do not gather that any broad distinction is drawn between the rights and the privileges that were enjoyed and that were taken away.

  

  Charles Tupper
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• We're all just passing time and occupy our chair very briefly.

  

  John Hurt
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• We are effectively living in a world of communications and information abundance.

  

  Peter Diamandis
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• Some men's magazines are just downright offensive.

  

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• Be not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the Gods.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Giving
  • Speak
  • Evidence

• 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.

  

  Jay-Z
  • World
  • Money
  • Power