Jay-Z (Shawn Corey Carter) Quotes
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Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause.
Jack Henry Abbott -
The experience of being on a show that is very much in the center of popular culture is exciting. You really feel like you're reaching people.
Aasif Mandvi -
Every guy should be the owner of a really nice pen. When you put your thoughts down, or whenever you're going to share something with someone, it means something if it bleeds out in a nice ink.
Rami Malek -
The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.
Mahatma Gandhi -
I never thought I'd be in a position where people would be talking about my sexuality and saying how good I look in underwear.
Fiona Apple -
I want to lay all my cards out on the table and walk away with no regrets.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson
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It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.
Samuel Johnson -
If you're a novelist, as I am in real life, you're usually so desperate for any kind of feedback.
Adam Mansbach -
Paris ain't much of a town.
Babe Ruth -
You can either see yourself as a wave in the ocean or you can see yourself as the ocean.
Oprah Winfrey -
My parents come down to Los Angeles a lot.
A. J. Buckley -
I can't even imagine how it must be to be a solo artist playing with session musicians.
Oliver Sim The xx
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You may count on Mexico's support, since your commitment to the noblest causes of mankind and your vast experience are and will be invaluable in enabling us, together, to achieve a better world.
Vicente Fox -
I was kosher until I had my Bar Mitzvah, and I parlayed officially becoming a man into telling my father I wanted to eat cheeseburgers.
Zach Braff -
Whenever anything went wrong at home, because I was the only boy, I would get blamed for it straight away. Girls stick together.
Zayn Malik One Direction -
I hate remakes of TV shows - I didn't like the new Charlie's Angels at all - and I just don't see the point of going back and doing the same thing over again. Baywatch was fun and successful, probably because we didn't know what the heck we were doing.
Pamela Anderson -
Whenever I cook, I think of Spanish music, so I always have to listen to some sort of salsa. It gets your body going.
Action Bronson -
Too pop for punk, too 'old school' for the New Wave, Mumps were a '70s era New York rock band, out of time.
Lance Loud
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I've always had bad posture, and Pilates makes me feel taller and reminds me to keep my shoulders back. And hiking isn't just about doing cardio, it's also when I can get my 'me time' to be alone with my thoughts. After Pilates I should do some cardio, and after hiking, I need to do some resistance training.
Mandy Moore -
I'm trying to inform people, so I try to present them with accurate information.
Matthew Yglesias -
For me, self-gratification eventually took a backseat to trying to do something collaborative with other people, to trying to make something new.
Ariel Pink -
Men killing other men really is an extraordinary phenomenon. Why does it happen? And how long has it gone on? And have the motives changed?
John Keegan -
History is a lie commonly agreed upon.
Oscar Wilde -
Driving Benzes with no benefits, not bad huh, for some immigrants?
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