Jay-Z (Shawn Corey Carter) Quotes
As fate would have it, Jay's status appears To be at an all-time high, perfect time to say goodbye When I come back like Jordan, wearing the 4-5.
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I think I was probably an early teenager when I discovered Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey and a bunch of people that are on a long list of artists. They were important to me, especially as an early adolescent.
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I don't even own a television. I don't watch network television.
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A vote for Japan is a vote for the future of rugby. We will do our best to make rugby a global sport.
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I personally don't like to rehearse so much. I really sort of trust my instinct.
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I was on 'SVU' for 11 years. I developed a muscle in my brain that could memorize things much more easily than people who don't do it every day. I got used to the language, and some of it got to be repetitive language, so you build your vocabulary.
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I always wanted to act. I guess I've always been a bit of a drama queen.
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I was 12 years old when I had my first job, delivering packages.
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I say I haven't lost my religion. I've lost my ideology.
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The bad reviews get to me, believe me.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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Business today consists in persuading crowds.
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They always say, 'Time heals.' But it really doesn't. You just get used to it. I live life with the mentality of 'OK, I lost the only thing that has ever been important to me.' So going forward, anything bad that happens can't be nearly as bad as what happened before.
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Don't overact the story of your name. Overact the story of your work.
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We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
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'I wish life was not so short,' he thought. 'Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.'
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I'm a person that just likes to speak the truth, and I don't understand why in America it's such a big deal that we won't read the Koran and we won't look at history.
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I could have taken the easy life and just done classical, but I felt very strongly about the album, my first pop album, the first time that I'd fused so many influences. I was very proud when it was in the charts in 25 countries at once.
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Prayer is an act of love; words are not needed. Even if sickness distracts from thoughts, all that is needed is the will to love.
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We're trained in school to equate mistakes with bad grades - something to be avoided at all costs. The alpha makers were somehow able to dodge that. They think that mistakes are just part of the creative process and maybe even the best way to learn.
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The time has come to put an end to the fratricidal war and to recover at last peace and accord.
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With the "old dog" stuff, maybe the term "old" is in there, but I'm 26. I'm not that old. It's mostly like, "Ah, you dirty old dog!" I'm saying it more like that. I'm still ripping. I'm ready to rip. I'll make a bunch more records and have a nice time. We'll see what happens.
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Unimpressed was his default state.
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As fate would have it, Jay's status appears To be at an all-time high, perfect time to say goodbye When I come back like Jordan, wearing the 4-5.
