Jay-Z (Shawn Corey Carter) Quotes
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The United States may be a religious nation. But it is also a nation with a strong commitment to separation of church and state.
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After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.
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It ultimately becomes an asset to be part of a theatrical family if, indeed, you're good at what you do.
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Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich.
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Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.
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Advertising is the price companies pay for being unoriginal.
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It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.
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The first time I worked with colors was by making these mosaics of Pantone swatches. They end up being very large pictures, and I photographed with a very large camera - an 8x10 camera. So you can see the surface of every single swatch - like in this picture of Chuck Close. And you have to walk very far to be able to see it.
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Progress in civilization has been accompanied by progress in cookery.
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Many occasions I've sat down with Israelis to say, where do you see your country in 10 years time, and work me back, so we can figure out the synergies and the connections between Israel and the rest of the Arab world. No Israeli has ever been able to answer that question.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but the organ of pure contemplation, our imagination.
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The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?
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I don't believe I could work as effectively at what I do without the support of my wife.
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Fashion has this youth mania. But 70-year-old ladies don't have 18-year-old bodies, and 18-year-olds don't have a 70-year-old's dollars.
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Reading about Queen Victoria has been a passion of mine since, as a child, I came across Laurence Housman's play 'Happy and Glorious,' with its Ernest Shepard illustrations.
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I've had a few conversations with people who are horrified: who tell me my work is demeaning, is sexist, is negative.
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No, but there are people I grew up with from the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains that would give any person on 'Justified' a run for their money in the scary department.
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I think most people don't like others who, without a voice of their own, emulate the other. I certainly don't want anybody just to pick up my thoughts and hand them back to me.
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As a dancer, obviously, we are all inspired by Michael Jackson, and I always looked up to Gene Kelly. He was a bigger version of Fred Astaire, and he was amazing as well.
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In a way, publishing in 2005 was similar to publishing in 1950. Nobody kept blogs; that was still optional. I didn't even have a website then.
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I want people to realize that they matter.
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The Lord looks after drunks and Americans.
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I believe excellence is being able to perform at a high level over and over.
