Jay-Z (Shawn Corey Carter) Quotes
People really feel like music is free, but will pay $6 for water. You can drink water free out of the tap and it's good water. But they're okay paying for it. It's just the mindset right now.
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Happiness is when you love who you are and you are able to accept yourself and others.
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I realized pretty soon that I have to do more than just play bass in the background way. So, I developed a kind of playing which only a handful of musicians accepted.
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There definitely will be flying cars, but whether there'll be flying cars for most people to use, it'll probably take a long time to straighten everything out, all the rules and hassles. It'll take a while to figure out how to keep people from crashing into each other.
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If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives... But up close a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern.
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There's a lot of things lost in the Digital Age.
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If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
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The political system is not for the people. The people are secondary to the economy. It's about what generates money, not about what benefits the people.
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Action is the foundational key to all success.
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Singing, writing songs, is kind of my biggest fear, but it's the thing I feel I need to conquer.
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Skysurfing is skydiving with a board on the feet. You can imagine with this big surface of a skysurfing board, there is a lot of force, a lot of power. Of course, I can use this power, for example, for nice spinning - we call it 'helicopter moves.'
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In a way, I'm lucky that I was never classically trained and never went to a music college. I'm just from a normal working class family and happened to get obsessed with music as a teenager.
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I'm having the same problems today that I had when I first started, saying that outrageous adult animation works.
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I'm a world expert on superhero comics. I think maybe only Michael Chabon knows more than me.
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I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them.
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I don't believe that human beings are necessarily monogamous.
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Marc if you want me to go to the bottom of the pool, I'll go there.
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Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.
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There was a long time where I was an 'artist' in quotes, who had no money. But I guess back then I also never had a girlfriend.
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My favourite designers are Alexander McQueen, YSL, Eskandar, Donna Karan and Lanvin.
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I always think that today is the best day that there's ever been. The song that I'm working on is always the best song I've ever written. The woman I'm looking at is the most incomprehensibly beautiful woman I've ever seen. These dogs that I have now are, by far, the best dogs I've ever had - although, so were the last pair of dogs I had.
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It has that thing - the imagination, and the feeling of happy excitement- I knew when I was a kid.
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People really feel like music is free, but will pay $6 for water. You can drink water free out of the tap and it's good water. But they're okay paying for it. It's just the mindset right now.
