Jay-Z (Shawn Corey Carter) Quotes

My tears is tatted, my rag in my pocket / Im just looking for love, I know somebody got it

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• I try to write about a woman finding her self-respect, valuing herself, and liking herself again. But what one desperately wants now is to write a proper novel.

  

  Kate O'Mara
  • Respect
  • Woman
  • Try

• When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.

  

  Gary Cole
  • People
  • Up
  • Movie

• I'm a stand-up. I'm never worried about getting my next role. That's never distressing to me.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Me
  • Never
  • Role

• A lot of people ask me what my mom has taught me about modeling. The truth is the things she teaches me go deeper than what pose to make or what my good side is.

  

  Kaia Gerber
  • People
  • Truth
  • Mom

• If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable. You must reach the emotional and intellectual level of ability where you can go out stark naked, emotionally, in front of an audience.

  

  Jack Lemmon
  • Want
  • Emotional
  • Audience

• It's very simple. You have to be faithful to your other half and not have secrets. That's my rule.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • You
  • Simple
  • Faithful

• I have a love for boxing.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Love
  • Boxing

• Even when they have nothing, the Irish emit a kind of happiness, a joy.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • Kind
  • Joy
  • Happiness

• When a person tests positive for HIV, it is not a test for the virus itself but for antibodies to the virus, and the test is not able to distinguish between HIV antibodies and a multitude of other antibodies. Many conditions can lead to a false positive result, including flu shots, hepatitis, and pregnancy.

  

  Nate Mendel Foo Fighters
  • Positive
  • Lead
  • Pregnancy

• I'm a big Otis Redding fan, Al Green, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye. My hero is David Bowie. But I like the Beatles, the Stones.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Wonder
  • Hero
  • Green

• All fame is is having people you don't know coming up to you and saying, 'Hello.' I'm always polite and people are always nice, but it's weird.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • People
  • Up
  • Nice

• If we perform as a unit and if every single player gives it his very best, everything can happen.

  

  Oliver Kahn
  • Single
  • Best
  • Player

• The reality is our story and the way we love and our taste in clothing and everything else. And what we ambitiously feel we can be.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Love
  • Reality
  • Feel

• The way people deal with me - they'll go overboard in trying to be politically correct and make a mess of it. Everyone's so worried about what they're saying to everyone else, that they don't talk very much.

  

  Warwick Davis
  • People
  • Trying
  • Saying

• I think, though, that people will read into a reporter's story a bias that they want to see in a reporter.

  

  Garrett Graff
  • People
  • Think
  • Want

• I fantasised about F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby' - I loved it, and then I read everything J. D. Salinger had to offer. Then I was turned on to Kerouac, and his spontaneous prose, his stream of consciousness way of writing. I admired him so much, and I romanticised so much about the '40s and '50s.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Great
  • Writing
  • Loved

• I was aware, in those early days of motherhood, that my behaviour was strange to the people who knew me well. It was as though I had been brainwashed, taken over by a cult religion. And yet this cult, motherhood, was not a place where I could actually live. Like any cult, it demanded a complete surrender of identity to belong to it.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • People
  • Live
  • Taken

• If I were really rich, I would be flying places, I think.

  

  Tao Lin
  • Think
  • Rich
  • Flying

• I ain’t up on sillygisms, but I can give you some arguments that nobody can answer.

  

  George W. Plunkitt
  • Give
  • Answer
  • Arguments

• How is faith to endure, O God, when you allow all this scraping and tearing on us? You have allowed rivers of blood to flow, mountains of suffering to pile up, sobs to become humanity's song – all without lifting a finger that we could see. You have allowed bonds of love beyond number to be painfully snapped. If you have not abandoned us, explain yourself.We strain to hear. But instead of hearing an answer we catch sight of God himself scraped and torn. Through our tears we see the tears of God.

  

  Nicholas Wolterstorff
  • God
  • Faith
  • Suffering

• I'll be damned if death wears my sadness for glad rags.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Sadness
  • Glad
  • Rags

• We need to figure out how to have the things we love, and not destroy the world.

  

  Elon Musk
  • World

• The Supreme Court acted appropriately today rejecting Mr. Starr's attempt to bypass the traditional appeals process on the subject of attorney-client privilege, ... Contrary to Mr. Starr's claims, the governmental attorney-client privilege is not a 'new' privilege. It is well established that confidentiality is the cornerstone of all attorney-client communications.

  

  Charles Ruff
  • Today
  • Attorney
  • Supreme Court

• My tears is tatted, my rag in my pocket / Im just looking for love, I know somebody got it

  

  Jay-Z
  • Knows
  • Tears
  • Pockets