Jay-Z (Shawn Corey Carter) Quotes

Now success was like lust, she's good to the touch, She's good for the moment, but she's never enough

Jay-Z

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• She
• Success
• Moments
• Enough
• Hip Hop
• Lust

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• I wasn't trained to be in front of a camera, so there were a lot of challenges at first. But I didn't want to be fake.

  

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• I feel very, very, very intent on only releasing things that I believe are fully worthy.

  

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• We shook up the industry with our landscape-changing deal to acquire Time Warner, the logical next step in our strategy to bring together world-class content with best-in-class distribution which will drive innovation and more choice for consumers.

  

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• I auditioned for 'The Office,' and I don't know if it was a role I could do, but I liked the character. You do one take, and you're reading with a person who's just sitting in a chair and not really... you're not playing off someone, which is what I like to do. I like to play around and find the moment.

  

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• I have seen life from the top down and the bottom up. I know how it looks both ways. And I know there is wisdom and that there is hope.

  

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• Pregnancy is something that I always love. It's about hope and the future and a new baby.

  

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• Tar sands oil is the dirtiest fuel on Earth. Because producing it consumes so much energy, a gallon of tar sands crude generates 17 percent more carbon pollution than conventional crude oil.

  

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• My memory is basically visual: that's what I remember, rooms and landscapes. What I do not remember are what the people in these room were telling me. I never see letters or sentences when I write or read, but only the images they produce.

  

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• What most interests me is human connection, whether it's on the street, in community, through music, storytelling, and shared experience. People tell me to be a rock cellist, make money, and give up on the activism so I can make more money.

  

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• I must say acting was good training for the political life which lay ahead for us.

  

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• Good women are rarely clever and clever women are rarely good.

  

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• Giving oneself permission to write to begin with is the first enormous challenge. But you discover that this permission involves a requirement: To write about things that are difficult because they are, in fact, your subject.

  

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• Now success was like lust, she's good to the touch, She's good for the moment, but she's never enough

  

  Jay-Z
  • Good
  • She
  • Success