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.
Barrett Foa -
It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
Jackie Mason -
What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
Irv Kupcinet -
There comes a time when money doesn't matter.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr. -
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.
Yo-Yo Ma -
I was in graduate school. I had a birth control accident and went to get the morning after pill.
Karen Bender
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To win in Australia, for me, has to be the ultimate success because the Aussies live for sport.
Ian Botham -
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.
K. A. Applegate -
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.
Imelda May -
I just want to continue the success and be an athlete that is shown in a good light in New York City.
Victor Cruz -
Every woman should shave her head once in her life, to experience what it feels like.
Bai Ling -
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.
Madeline Zima
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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.
Jacob Epstein -
If you saw pictures of me as a kid, you'd laugh because I was always in football kit.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson -
My family didn't have any money growing up. I'm just a girl from the ghetto; from Indio, California.
Vanessa Marcil -
Every newspaper editor says the heart of the paper is the reporter - which is true - except for the pay!
Jack Germond -
Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
Oliver Goldsmith -
Online hierarchies are inherently dynamic. The moment someone stops adding value to the community, his influence starts to wane.
Gary Hamel
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I think that 'Family Guy' is hysterical. It's edgy and hip - and they can do whatever they want to do because it's animated and they're not limited by budget.
Zachary Levi -
Crazy people are my people? Really? I think that's silly. That's another one of those pigeonhole things. Lay somebody on an ironing board and put a scalding hot iron on them, get that going real good: 'Oh, this is who Holly Hunter is.'
Holly Hunter -
No show can be 'The Oprah Winfrey Show,' including 'The Gayle King Show.' I think she's very good but I think I'm very good too. I think we have different skill sets... but I don't think that I could do what she does and never have.
Gayle King -
It's amazing what the Internet can teach you to do.
Bobby Schilling -
We've explored very little of the ocean. We really don't know what's out there. But people think we've figured it all out.
Philippe Cousteau, Jr. -
We change people through conversation, not through censorship.
Jay-Z