Jay-Z (Shawn Corey Carter) Quotes
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I love the immediacy of an audience being there and reacting. I'm spoiled, having grown up in theater.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
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There comes a time when money doesn't matter.
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I'm not likely to forget where I've been and what I've done and learned. I think it's just as important to play new instruments as to play new pieces. The old ones are getting scarcer and the new ones more and more wonderful.
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I was in graduate school. I had a birth control accident and went to get the morning after pill.
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To win in Australia, for me, has to be the ultimate success because the Aussies live for sport.
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At the end of the day, I'd love to see children stop begging their parents to go to the circus. That's what would make me most happy.
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In a way, I'm lucky that I was never classically trained and never went to a music college. I'm just from a normal working class family and happened to get obsessed with music as a teenager.
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I just want to continue the success and be an athlete that is shown in a good light in New York City.
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Every woman should shave her head once in her life, to experience what it feels like.
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The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.
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I'm very spiritual. I meditate every day. I don't know if that's surprising or not, but I've been doing that since I was 16 every day, so that's like kind of my thing. I'm really a hippie-chick at heart.
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Early on I saw the plastic quality in colored people and had friends among them; and later was to work from colored models and friends, including Paul Robeson, whose splendid head I worked from in New York. I tried to draw Chinamen in their quarter, but the Chinese did not like being drawn and would immediately disappear when they spotted me.
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If you saw pictures of me as a kid, you'd laugh because I was always in football kit.
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My family didn't have any money growing up. I'm just a girl from the ghetto; from Indio, California.
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Every newspaper editor says the heart of the paper is the reporter - which is true - except for the pay!
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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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Big ideas, big ambitious projects need to be embedded within culture at a level deeper than the political winds. It needs to be deeper than the economic fluctuations that could turn people against an expensive project because they're on an unemployment line and can't feed their families.
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To me, evil comes when you have a choice between that and good, and you choose the wrong way.
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I am not one of the great composers. All the great have produced enormously. There is everything in their work - the best and the worst, but there is always quantity. But I have written relatively little.
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It is odd there are many movies with many men. But generally movies have one woman, or maybe the older woman and the younger girl.
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I often find myself feeling that filming music is somehow the purest form of filmmaking. This crazed collision of sound and images, the intense collaboration, these incredibly cinematic performances. And for the nights you're filming, a non-player like me gets to feel somehow part of the band.
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We change people through conversation, not through censorship.
