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.
Callie Khouri -
After 'Pitch Perfect,' I only want to be in sequels. No. 2 of whatever.
Adam DeVine -
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.
Cara Delevingne -
Allowing homosexuality means allowing satanic rights.
Yahya Jammeh -
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.
Rachel Kushner -
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.
Tanya Tucker
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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.
Madeleine M. Kunin -
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.
Lake Bell -
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.
Jack Antonoff Fun. -
I've seen the future and it's much like the present only longer.
Dan Quisenberry -
Some of the craziest people I've met, in my life, are some of the most brilliant people I've met.
Katee Sackhoff -
Do you love me because I'm beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me?
Oscar Hammerstein II
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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.
Kacy Catanzaro -
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.
Sam Hunt -
American management thinks that they can just copy from Japan. But they don't know what to copy.
W. Edwards Deming -
Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.
Mahatma Gandhi -
I was fascinated by fairies when I was growing up, and I wanted to see one dreadfully.
Laura Amy Schlitz -
Find fault with thyself rather than with others.
Ieyasu Tokugawa
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In some ways, jazz is the most precise of art forms and the loosest in the sense that it's all about improvisation, but the musicianship required is kind of insane. To actually play with real jazz musicians is a different level of musicianship that almost has no equal in any other form of music in the world.
Damien Chazelle -
As straight Americans we have two choices: we can choose to sit back and enjoy our rights as we have them, or we can realize that it is actually not freedom at all when our friends, family, neighbors, and colleagues do not share these basic rights.
Jack Antonoff Fun. -
If we are to be good stewards of the ocean, we need to understand what lives there and how the animals interact with each other and with their environment, which means we need to be constantly seeking new and improved methods for exploration and observation.
Edith Widder -
Can Jesus Christ see the agony of His soul in us? He can't unless we are so closely identified with Him that we have His view concerning the people for whom we pray. May we learn to intercede so wholeheartedly that Jesus Christ will be completely and overwhelmingly satisfied with us as intercessors.
Oswald Chambers -
Don't tell me what was said about me. Tell me why they were so comfortable to say it to you.
Jay-Z