Jay-Z (Shawn Corey Carter) Quotes
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Sometimes your parents are the ones with the biggest mouths of all time.
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You have to interpret what's hot to make it work on yourself. If tweed suits are in, but you're not a suit kind of girl, wear the jacket with jeans and a pair of Converses.
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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.
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There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.
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Playing Juliet in 'Heavenly Creatures' changed my life, and the role of Clementine in' Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' opened many new doors creatively.
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Venus favors the bold.
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Part of the reason I sort of shot out like a cannon out of Michigan and left home at such an early age is because I had to feel independent.
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As you get older, you get different, and I'm a mushier, softer person as I get older.
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Speaking as someone who didn't go through the U.K. school system, with all the culinary baggage that entails, I am inordinately fond of custard in any shape or form.
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I tell fans who ask me why I'm not doing comedy anymore that I'm a different person. I've grown and I've matured. I've made a transition to where I really want to be.
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There is an important idea in psychology: The 'just world theory,' which says that it is very important for us to convince ourselves that the world is just and things happen for a reason. That there is some elemental fairness in everything, which creates the illusion of justice.
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Let thy step be slow and steady, that thou stumble not.
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Music video played a huge role in developing my sensibility as a director.
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In fitness, there are no short cuts. It involves immense discipline and hard work.
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The quarterback is an extension of the coach and has a certain type of swagger mentality, on and off the field.
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My husband is in charge of all phone, email and texting duties at home. He even has to turn on the TV and air conditioning because I'm so hopeless with technology.
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There's nothing bloody wrong with wanting it at all.
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There are no large-scale original musicals being made right now. They're all Broadway adaptations and jukebox musicals or catalog musicals, and they just don't interest me as much.
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Writing an encyclopedia is hard. To do anywhere near a decent job, you have to know a great deal of information about an incredibly wide variety of subjects. Writing so much text is difficult, but doing all the background research seems impossible.
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Directing takes a lot of time.
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There are happy stories out there, but I think some of them may raise false expectations for teens.
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Maybe my fairy tale has a different ending than I dreamed it would. But that's OK.
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But I can see. I can see everything. I can see things that Mom and Dad can’t. Or won’t.
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You not feeling me, fine. It costs you nothing, pay me no mind.
