Jay-Z (Shawn Corey Carter) Quotes
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People always ask me about 'Girls' with this kind of hesitation. What do I think of it? I love it. It's awesome. I get a lot of Where do you come down on this? I come down on the side of 'Yay, Lena Dunham. Congratulations. I'm jealous.' She's doing something so fantastic. Maybe it's not for everybody, but it certainly is for me.
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After 'Pitch Perfect,' I only want to be in sequels. No. 2 of whatever.
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I have a great support network - my family, my model agency Storm, and people I work with in the fashion industry. And, of course, there are all my followers on Twitter who stop me from feeling lonely; I love them all. They keep me grounded.
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Allowing homosexuality means allowing satanic rights.
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The late Seventies was the death of the manufacturing age in the United States. It was also a time when the Pictures Generation artists were getting started. They co-opted the language of advertising. The factory disappeared, and weirdly, so did the art object - it was the age of making gestures, not objects.
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We've got great fans that rock and roll won't have, because you can have a one-hit record and country music used to, not so much anymore and you have a fan forever.
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Compromise, contrary to popular opinion, does not mean selling out one's principles. Compromise means working out differences to forge a solution which fits the diversity of the body politic.
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My brother and I had many games. We were inseparable. We had a little team going on between us. We had even a language that was kind of like pig latin. So we'd speak in the language. It's called Op.
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One thing a lot of people don't know about Fun. was that the three of us all came from 10 years of touring with our own projects. That's how we met, actually.
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I've seen the future and it's much like the present only longer.
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Some of the craziest people I've met, in my life, are some of the most brilliant people I've met.
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Do you love me because I'm beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me?
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I like visualizing a lot, so the night before a competition and right before, I will visualize myself. I'll close my eyes, turn away from everybody, and just see myself doing exactly what I want to accomplish.
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To all my people back in Nashville who have been there from the start, you put your faith in me. You were there for the long haul.
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American management thinks that they can just copy from Japan. But they don't know what to copy.
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Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.
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I was fascinated by fairies when I was growing up, and I wanted to see one dreadfully.
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Find fault with thyself rather than with others.
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When a film is created, it is created in a language, which is not only about words, but also the way that very language encodes our perception of the world, our understanding of it.
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Our alliances and our credibility are crucial elements of our working capital in advancing America's interests in the world, and they have been eroded over the last four years.
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I hate flying. Know why? Because no one really understands how planes actually work.
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Once you realize that everything happens for a reason, attitudes towards matters such as illnesses, or lawsuits, for example, change.
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No longer are there immutable standards by which to judge ourselves. Image has overtaken reality.
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Don't tell me what was said about me. Tell me why they were so comfortable to say it to you.
