Jay-Z (Shawn Corey Carter) Quotes
Your future is ahead of you. Imagine the notion of the past fifteen years of your life being a blip in your story.
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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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I kind of lost interest in school. I was never really that interested anyway. I was never academic. I didn't really go to school as much as I should have.
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As a younger actor, I had delusions. I would dream of Scorsese and De Niro; I would meet people, and it would be like this, and it would change moviemaking in France, and Paris would become the center of the world.
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I like to discover new things.
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I've got a 12-year-old grandson who, when he was 3 years old, before he could say many other words, could name the different kinds of dinosaurs.
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We live in a time where government is not a leadership thing, it's more a business that's out there and running riot, so I guess the people have to go out there and say stuff.
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I'm not really one of those people who believes that if you're a musician you can just leave that behind and start getting into politics.
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I would love to do some more comedy. I would love to do some silliness. I would love to do some characters that have greater vulnerability.
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I wish I was a little more gregarious and outgoing.
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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Sometimes you have to be okay with what you are to the world, where you are in the world, and make the most of it.
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Never relinquish clothing to a hotel valet without first specifically telling him that you want it back.
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There really are three types of 'religious' movies: the ones that make fun of it, the ones that vilify it and the ones that literally preach to the converted.
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Being an actor is a good way to earn a living. And to meet fabulous people. It's great to live very comfortably. I've been lucky, I've had a lot of fun with great roles, but it is true that if I were extremely rich, I would stop and I would go to play football on a beach in the Caribbean with my children.
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Everyone is just nicer to prettier people.
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I feel very lucky to get to fly the flag of RCA Records and Sony Music.
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Small Faces were really a soul band as far as we were concerned. That's what we listened to; that's what we played, you know? We were pretty much based on Booker T. and the M.G.'s.
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I hate when a guy brags... or he sweats.
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I have just joined the Board of the Population Institute because I am convinced that early stabilization of the world's population is important for the attainment of this objective.
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I wonder if Louis Ferreira would be interested in directing.
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When I was about to enroll for my third year of college, I ended up dropping out and moving to Nashville.
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Nations without a past are contradictions in terms. What makes a nation is the past, what justifies one nation against others is the past, and historians are the people who produce it.
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The unbearableness of the future is easier to face than that of the present if only because human foresight is much more destructive than anything that the future can bring about.
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Your future is ahead of you. Imagine the notion of the past fifteen years of your life being a blip in your story.
