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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We tend in this country to talk about Democrats and Republicans, and think there's little group over there called Independents that's maybe 2%. That is not the case, and it has not been the case for most of modern American history.
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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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Documentaries deal with people who live real, everyday lives. But if these people trusted us and told us the truth about their lives, it could be used against them - which sometimes happened.
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When red-haired people are above a certain social grade their hair is auburn.
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Life is short. People are not easy to know. They're not easy to know, so if you don't tell them how you feel, you're not going to get anywhere, I feel.
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I don't think human affection and compassion are just religious concerns; they're indispensable factors in our day-to-day lives.
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I didn't care because what mattered is that Dante's voice felt real. And I felt real. Until Dante, being with other people was the hardest thing in the world for me. But Dante made talking and living and feeling seem like all those things were perfectly natural. Not in my world, they weren't.
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We change people through conversation, not through censorship.
