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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It's a Wonderful Life. This film illustrates that if you treat your customers with respect, they will recognize you and even help when you're most in need.
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It is wisest to be impartial. If you have health, but are attached to it, you will always be afraid of losing it. And if you fear that loss, but become ill, you will suffer. Why not remain forever joyful in the Self?
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We thought we'd name the magazine for the number of bridges within Edmonton's city limits. We thought this number was 18. Much later, we learned that the number is actually 21. But we didn't like the sound of that so much.
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The lifeblood of my career has been independent film.
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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.
