Jay-Z (Shawn Corey Carter) Quotes
When you step outside of school and have to teach yourself about life, you develop a different relationship to information. I've never been a purely linear thinker. You can see it in my rhymes. My mind is always jumping around, restless, making connections, mixing and matching ideas, rather than marching in a straight line. That's why I'm always stressing focus. My thoughts chase each other from room to room in my head if I let them, so sometimes I have to slow myself down.
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We're all concerned about sports rights being so expensive. Obviously, we are funded by the licence fee payers, so it's not always easy to compete with those who can get greater revenue.
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I was a big 'Battlestar Galactica' fan and 'Star Trek' fan. I grew up watching those.
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When you're in your early 20s your love life seems to explode every 20 minutes or so. By the time you've reached your thirties, it is every five or ten years.
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There was Pauline de Rothschild, who I thought was very fabulous, and Millicent Rogers, the Standard Oil heiress, very chic, very clever, very original. I admired both those women very much. And I had a great example with my mother, who was extremely chic.
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We have to stop rewarding bad behavior.
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I am a massive fan of early electronica like Steve Reich, Pat Metheny and Thomas Dolby. I used to be a big raver, too, so anything dance. I love ambient music like Tunng. I love acoustic and classical, too.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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You're creating new things in movies and people are going to steal them.
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When you're a caregiver, you need to realize that you've got to take care of yourself, because, not only are you going to have to rise to the occasion and help someone else, but you have to model for the next generation.
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Village cricket spread fast through the land.
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I had a lovely childhood. For family holidays, we went as far as the car could take us - we would drive to Florida, even though it would take three days. I didn't know we didn't have a lot of money because there was always food on the table. I didn't have a lot of stuff, but I did figure skating for a long time, and I always had my skates.
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My father always taught me to appreciate what you're fortunate to have and give back to those who need it. No part of our society is more important than the children, especially the ones who need our help.
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I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.
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Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.
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Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man.
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The fundamental thing about my personality is that I think I'm an imposter.
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Only through loving and supporting one another, even in the face of unbearable pain and suffering, will this cycle of violence end.
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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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Every central government worships uniformity: uniformity relieves it from inquiry into an infinity of details.
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Being trans comes at a high cost, but being black and trans can cost you your life.
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We can and must move U.S. politics forward by means of committed participation.
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I do cagefight commentary in my spare time.
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When you step outside of school and have to teach yourself about life, you develop a different relationship to information. I've never been a purely linear thinker. You can see it in my rhymes. My mind is always jumping around, restless, making connections, mixing and matching ideas, rather than marching in a straight line. That's why I'm always stressing focus. My thoughts chase each other from room to room in my head if I let them, so sometimes I have to slow myself down.
