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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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
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There are tons of women's perfumes that I've smelt and been like, 'I love that. I would totally wear that,' and lots of women smell a lot of men's cologne and think the same thing about that. I think there should be no reason to put gender on it.
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I just love to watch people get scared. It's like, 'Yes, I accomplished my goal!'
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The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead station.
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A lawyer is never entirely comfortable with a friendly divorce, anymore than a good mortician wants to finish his job and then have the patient sit up on the table.
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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.
