Jay-Z (Shawn Corey Carter) Quotes
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Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.
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I was fortunate enough to get an author-backed role in Aamir Khan starrer 'Talash.'
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I converse with my dog through ESP.
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I tried to play rugby but was never very good.
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I was afraid I would see someone from my past who thought I was this big athlete, and then I end up being just normal.
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Most families had four, five brothers. But because it was just me and Darryl, we had to be twice as strong.
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I've been things and seen places.
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There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.
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Any girl who likes watching movies would like to work in them and would want to do all of that. I'm also one of them. But people know me for badminton and love me for it. So I'd stick to it right now. But maybe after badminton, I'll think about it.
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All true happiness, pure joy, sweet bounties, and unclouded pleasure are contained within the knowledge and love of God.
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There is a need for the European Union to use all potential we have on defense cooperation.
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I don't think of reflection on dark things as necessarily dark.
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A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
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The emotive power of hummus all over the Middle East cannot be overstated, being the focus of some serious tribal rivalries.
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I was in Vietnam, and I was exposed to Agent Orange. And there's a high relationship between people that were exposed to Agent Orange and the kind of lymphoma that I had. The prostate cancer was genetic in my family. My father had prostate cancer, my - three of my four uncles had prostate cancer.
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Now my goal is to be strong. I get two classes in a week, and they'll be either barre or reformer Pilates.
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I'm always the interrogator. When I was an actor in rep, I always played sinister parts. The directors always said, 'If there's a nasty man about, cast Harold Pinter.'
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You just sort of let them go for a while, but it was time to have something done to my teeth. I'm glad. It's going to be good. Tom Cruise has braces now, too. I'm right in style.
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I'm trying to escape the shackles of a pen and a pad. I've sat in sessions with Jay-Z where he doesn't write anything down. He'll come up with the most incredible triple entendre, all in his head - it's amazing.
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In the past, my process would start with a sample of another song, and I'd chop it up and use that as the basis of the song that I was making.
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Ef you want peace, the thing you've gut tu duIs jes' to show you're up to fightin', tu.
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If you look at 2009, why did the recovery happen? Recovery happened because somebody in the world's largest economy opened the tap: the U.S., followed by Europe and now Japan.
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If things aren't going well, music is what I turn to so I can get away from it, to take my mind somewhere else.
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I will not lose, for even in defeat/There's a valuable lesson learned, so it evens up for me
