Jay-Z (Shawn Corey Carter) Quotes
Niggas pray and pray on my downfall, But every time I hit the ground I bounce up like round ball
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People think that celebs make a lot more money than we do. We look for bargains and we do a lot of stuff on our own.
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I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.
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With couture, you feel obligated to design something modern each season, but with Theyskens Theory, I don't question anything. I'm thinking of what I'd like to wear.
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You get tough when you grow up unloved. People described me as a boyish girl - rather shy, but I didn't show it. I had an attitude. I was rather wild. I lied a lot because I knew the alternative was to be punished. As I got older I realised I didn't have to lie any more and it was a nice feeling. I could be myself.
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In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.
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Music isn't like news, where it's what happened five minutes ago or even 10 seconds ago that matters. With music, a song from the 1960s could be as relevant to someone today as the latest Ke$ha song.
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Unless you are Stephen King, a book signing is attended by maybe 40 or 50 people.
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I've never been jealous. I've never had to be.
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I don't think my parents would have let me go straight into acting full time when I was 12. I do like to have balance, naturally, as an individual.
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Children don't really understand the concept of health. You can't give them an apple and say 'if you eat this you will be healthy when you're older' because they don't understand. You have to find a different way to motivate them.
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I tend to not watch things that are current. And then if everybody swears it's amazing then I'll like watch the whole series in a weekend.
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The best we can do, to paraphrase Pollan, is to eat whole foods, mostly plants, and not too much.
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I sing all the time. But maybe nobody's hearing it, because I'm singing in my car or in my house or whatever. I don't need the roar of the crowd, and I don't need to hear cheers to feel validated.
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The cost of living is going up and the chance of living is going down.
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One of the joys of going to the movies was that it was trashy, and we should never lose that.
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What I find is most people have a civics book understanding for how Congress works and how a bill moves.
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No country in the world is going to recognize that Ariel and Maaleh Adumim and Beit El are a sovereign part of Israel.
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I don't read 'chick lit,' fantasy or science fiction but I'll give any book a chance if it's lying there and I've got half an hour to kill.
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I always wanted to do a movie that deals with America's horrific past with slavery, but the way I wanted to deal with it is - as opposed to doing it as a huge historical movie with a capital H - I thought it could be better if it was wrapped up in genre.
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Tennis has had a very positive impact on my life.
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Everybody's doing it. When I'm performing and I do the Dougie, the fans lose their minds.
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All the young voters who flocked to Obama in droves grew up watching 'The Daily Show' and the 'Colbert Report.'
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Niggas pray and pray on my downfall, But every time I hit the ground I bounce up like round ball
