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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All wealth consists of desirable things; that is, things which satisfy human wants directly or indirectly: but not all desirable things are reckoned as wealth.
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There's no point starting something you don't intend to finish.
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My own passion for caravan holidays has been occasionally commented on by the media. It is certainly something that I am proud of.
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God lets everything happen for a reason. It's all a learning process, and you have to go from one level to another.
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Great designers seldom make great advertising men, because they get overcome by the beauty of the picture - and forget that merchandise must be sold.
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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.
