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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Let's help those in prison maintain positive connections with their community. If we truly want re-entry to be successful, and we do, people need to come back to a place that still feels like home.
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My audience consists mainly of people who already recognize how bad this culture is, and I want to push them to become more radical. It doesn't really matter to me if they are Left or Right.
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If I'm writing for a particular artist, I definitely think about their past records, pay attention to the type of tempos that they like. If I have the privilege of actually being in the session with the artist, I just like to have a conversation with them.
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Record covers still inspire me in terms of clothes, some bands just look sharp. But I still wear stuff I owned when I was 16.
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We change people through conversation, not through censorship.
