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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I don't get irrational about it, but I do have a deeply-rooted competitive spirit. Not necessarily towards other people, but towards any obstacle that I set for myself.
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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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L.A. makes you feel ugly.
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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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I don't know how much of a market there is for space opera. Just because it's in the movies doesn't mean magazines are buying it.
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The cost of living is going up and the chance of living is going down.
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Writing is work. It takes a lot of contemplation, concentration, and out-and-out sweat. People tend to romanticize it, that somehow your work appears by benefit of some mystical external force. In reality, to be a writer, you have to sit down and write. It's work, and often it's hard work.
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People who are bipolar, they kind of latch onto things that are fanatical sometimes.
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I still say if the ball is there to be won I will go for it, whether with my head or whatever, and if it means us scoring or stopping a goal, I won't think twice.
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If there is one thing BP's 'watery improv act' made clear, it is that, as a culture, we have become far too willing to gamble with things that are precious and irreplaceable, and to do so without a back-up plan, without an exit strategy.
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The whole process of music for me is something absolutely honest and really naked and bare, so I never forced myself to write in French.
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We're really just the frosting on a cake and we don't know what's inside the cake.
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Niggas pray and pray on my downfall, But every time I hit the ground I bounce up like round ball
