Jay-Z (Shawn Corey Carter) Quotes

I'm trying to tell the story in the most clear, concise, and truthful way, taking those everyday words and phrases and capturing them in a way that they become something else.

Jay-Z

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• This was just one of many times God has spared me.

  

  Jack Kelley
  • God
  • Me
  • Times

• I always get scared. I can't read scripts. I'm scared, scary movies and stuff.

  

  Vanessa Ferlito
  • Always
  • Movies
  • Scary

• I don't really feel like I have to have a debate with my husband over issues.

  

  Laura Bush
  • Feel
  • Husband
  • Debate

• I always wear the same thing at home. I can't be bothered with jewelry. My pants have elastic waists. I like to be comfortable. There are so many more important things to worry about.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Important
  • Home
  • Worry

• To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Education
  • Like
  • Eating

• It is absolutely critical for competitiveness in the United States for us to really raise the bar in education, especially in math, in science, in technology.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • Science
  • Education
  • Technology

• There's nobody else that can double me - except for a doll.

  

  Verne Troyer
  • Me
  • Nobody
  • Double

• I don't think it is just in the world of politics. The lack of civility in society as a whole, some of it, I believe, is very much fueled by social media and frankly, it's fueled by the fact that journalism is not journalism any more.

  

  Karen Handel
  • World
  • Believe
  • Society

• I think I'm a lot funnier and goofier than people were able to see on 'Dancing With the Stars.'

  

  J. R. Martinez
  • People
  • Think
  • Stars

• I was an easygoing guy, and school was pretty much people trying to challenge me to a fight, y'know, saying, 'Rambo! Rocky!'

  

  Sage Stallone
  • People
  • Trying
  • School

• Architecture is undistinguished, sometimes derelict, but occasionally, as in 'Post and Beam,' there is something arresting in a setting... the building behind the Cathedral.

  

  Edith Pearlman
  • Architecture
  • Building

• The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • More
  • Self
  • Execution

• This is the beauty of fiction. We may not like these characters, but we inhabit them.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • May
  • Like
  • Beauty

• A lot of the younger kids now can rap, but they're scared of the crowd. Mastery of that stage is an MC. I don't know if you've seen any great MCs on stage but when you do it's like wow, this is more than the words to rhymes.

  

  Ice T
  • Great
  • Kids
  • Words

• I use the PhotoReady Foundation almost every day, and their lip glosses are fantastic.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Day
  • Everyday
  • Foundation

• I love singing. It's who I am. When I act, I take a small part of myself and just magnify it, but when I'm singing, that's who I am. I don't write music, so I choose songs that I would have written.

  

  Lainie Kazan
  • Music
  • Singing
  • Write

• 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.

  

  Vik Muniz
  • Up
  • Time
  • Single

• One of the things I'm really good at is procrastinating.

  

  Camilla Lackberg
  • Good
  • Things
  • Really

• When you make a movie, you really have to be clever and smart, find something new for the worldwide audience because you aren't making a movie for just France or Germany; it's for everyone in the world.

  

  Olivier Megaton
  • World
  • Movie
  • Smart

• I've always loved life, irrespective of all the ups and downs that have filled my journey.

  

  Lata Mangeshkar
  • Life
  • Journey
  • Ups And Downs

• I think that with 'The Vampire Diaries,' you never know what's going to happen, and I don't think the characters necessarily know, either. So you can only weigh so much, and then it might just come down to 'kill or be killed.'

  

  Kat Graham
  • Think
  • Know
  • Down

• When I first started making ambient music, I was setting up systems using synthesizers that generated pulses more or less randomly. The end result is a kind of music that continuously changes. Of course, until computers came along, all I could actually present of that work was a piece of its output.

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
  • Up
  • Work
  • Music

• My mother taught me to wash my hair as little as possible, and to rinse it with Coke before a shoot for a sexy, tousled look.

  

  Lou Doillon
  • Mother
  • Hair
  • Sexy

• I'm trying to tell the story in the most clear, concise, and truthful way, taking those everyday words and phrases and capturing them in a way that they become something else.

  

  Jay-Z
  • Trying
  • Words
  • Everyday