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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You might think the thinner version of yourself is going to be the most positive or confident, but that's not how it is for me. When I'm over 200 pounds, that's when I'm the most confident version of myself.
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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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I never lose confidence. As soon as you lose confidence, you're done.
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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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Fallible characters are more interesting than superheroes in the end.
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Only a woman can tell you what it's like to be a woman in a society where men are in charge. When you have one demographic that controls the livelihood of minorities, then you're always going to have abuses of power. So this goes way beyond Hollywood.
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Nearly everybody I know does something to try to remove herself to clear her head and to have enough time and space to think... All of us instinctively feel that something inside us is crying out for more spaciousness and stillness to offset the exhilarations of this movement and the fun and diversion of the modern world.
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I've learned... That I wish I could have told my Mom that I love her one more time before she passed away.
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We keep calling for accountability and reinvestment and a push for all of us to imagine a world where black people are not policed but instead supported and loved and cared for. Where our families can feel safe and inspired and protected.
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Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid.
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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.
