Jay-Z (Shawn Corey Carter) Quotes
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I'm good at description and imparting flow to a story, but I don't necessarily understand the value of long scenes.
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I've never left them to go do a film. No, we all go together. I could never leave them. My kids are my whole world.
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I'm Cuban, so I know a lot of people who act like vampires. But wait, vampires have to be invited to your house, so maybe they are nothing like Latinos!
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Unfortunately, America doesn't have a minister of culture, and I don't understand why. It's really bad for young people.
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Suning Appliance has no problem of financial risk. Do you think I'm risky? I'm definitely not risky.
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The rebuilding of Iraq has been terrible.
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Church was a requirement - there was no choice in the matter; so was vacation bible school. Gospel has been in me since I was a kid.
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You don't actually have control of the position people want you to be in. If they say, 'You king of the blacks,' you're king of the blacks - whether you like it or not.
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I only know that I fired twice, or perhaps several times, without knowing whether I had hit or missed.
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We would like to preserve Europe for Europeans.
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My job as an author is to tell the story in the best way possible, to make it flow seamlessly and get the reader to keep turning the page.
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The thing that I think a lot of guys need to know how to do is not take your mother's advice about honesty being the best policy. Listen to your cool, drunk uncle who tells you to lie. Those are the relationships that last.
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I definitely want to be an inspiration or a role model for all the little girls out there or anyone out there that wants to break stereotypes. I feel like I'm breaking stereotypes with what I'm doing. I'm not the typical fighter, and there's a lot of people out there that won't do something just because they don't fit the stereotype.
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When I remember my life in Russia it is in totally dark colours.
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I think that there's a tendency for actors who play strong women to have them take on all the worst characteristics of men, to become cold and detached and hardened.
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I've made Umno more democratic, more inclusive. Of course, by doing that, I'm putting myself at risk.
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Everybody sort of questioned why we get married on New Year's Day, and of course, the avid sports fans wouldn't come, because they had to watch the Rose Bowl or whatever that is on that day.
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My siblings and I, we were raised on TV and films. Not a day went by that we weren't watching one of three movies - 'Caddyshack,' 'Animal House,' 'Beverly Hills Cop' - on rotation. Our comedy, our personalities were set watching 'Sesame Street': these really sort of wacky, Jim Henson-y characters.
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The bird of passage known to us as the cuckoo.
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People who build family businesses are not classically trained. They have to deal with an enormous amount of politics. You think corporate politics are tough? Go work for your dad or your mom.
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The metaphor is~ an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
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I have an iPod, but I put my music in it from my CDs, and then I have that CD in my library.
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Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.
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I'm far from being god, but I work god damn hard.