Jay-Z (Shawn Corey Carter) Quotes
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How hard have those intolerant of John Adams's perspective worked to strip from young people any hope of knowing the concepts and truths that help deal with life?
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What I have found most surprising is the amount of damage we have done to environment in the course of my lifetime - not even five and a half decades.
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We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.
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A 2014 survey found that 74% of law-enforcement agencies reported antigovernment extremism as one of the top terrorist threats. Just 3% of those agencies viewed the threat from Muslim extremists as severe.
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I wrote my first book when I was 15 years old. And my second book '1,2,3 Publish Me!' shows everyone how writing a book is done in just the three secret editing levels I discovered!
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Food doesn't necessarily have to suck in order to be healthy. It doesn't have to be terrible to be healthy anymore.
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God manifests himself in each historical period according to the understanding of the people of the era.
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In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void.
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I love adventure sports. And, I love cooking.
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Leaders cannot work in a vacuum. They may take on larger, seemingly more important roles in an organization, but this does not exclude them from asking for and using feedback. In fact, a leader arguably needs feedback more so than anyone else. It's what helps a leader respond appropriately to events in pursuit of successful outcomes.
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I tell young actors to do anything that will sustain them.
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Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material.
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Lipgloss is my calling!
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My valleys are higher than most people's peaks. I stay at that level.
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My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
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The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence.
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I had a dream cast when Dan first went off and wrote 'Ghostbusters 3' by himself. It was so long ago that my dream cast was Ben Stiller, Chris Farley, and Chris Rock. That would have been cool. Now, a lot of time has passed, and there are a lot of young funny people.
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I wish I was a little more gregarious and outgoing.
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Do you ever find yourself climbing into an open grave during a bombing raid and wish you'd just stayed in bed?
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A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.
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'I am afraid', replied Elinor, 'that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.'
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Zen, on the other hand, is not so dogmatically sterile, though there are certainly traces and more than traces of this austerity. However, with Zen we have not only the void, but the fertile void. The ink lines in a sumi-e painting show this fertility of the void ever ready to brim over into existence.
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It's extremely difficult to get these jobs because you can't get a job on a ship unless you have seaman's paper's, and you can't get seaman's papers unless you have a job on a ship. There had to be a way to break through the circle, and he was the one who arranged it for me.
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I ain't lookin' at you dudes -I'm lookin' past you.
