Jay-Z (Shawn Corey Carter) Quotes

In the end, you can't censor the truth, especially when it comes packaged in hot music.

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• Don't let nobody tell you that you can't do it. Love what you do until you don't love it anymore. Nothing's impossible.

  

  Fetty Wap
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Impossible

• I feel like, for me, different environments are very important to me creatively. I think it's my norm to be on the move.

  

  K. Flay
  • Different
  • Important
  • Think

• Literatures, like trees and plants, are born of a land and in it flourish and die. But literatures, also like plants, may be carried abroad to take root in a foreign soil.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • May
  • Die
  • Trees

• Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Thoughts
  • Blind
  • Content

• Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • World
  • Society
  • Faith

• You don't go into politics unless you want to win.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Want
  • Politics
  • Win

• I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.

  

  Ted Danson
  • People
  • Love
  • Guy

• A man will turn over half a library to make one book.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Book
  • Man
  • Library

• Just as we might take Darwin as an example of the normal extraverted thinking type, the normal introverted thinking type could be represented by Kant. The one speaks with facts, the other relies on the subjective factor. Darwin ranges over the wide field of objective reality, Kant restricts himself to a critique of knowledge.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Thinking
  • Reality
  • Knowledge

• We can see cities during the day and at night, and we can watch rivers dump sediment into the ocean, and see hurricanes form.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Night
  • Day
  • Ocean

• In terms of 'Seinfeld', I think there's lot of reality in a show that's supposed to be about nothing.

  

  Wale
  • Think
  • Reality
  • Nothing

• People just love to be entertained, and in order to entertain them, you have to do things in a way that they understand.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • People
  • Love
  • Understand

• I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • History
  • Learning
  • Best

• Turn off the TV and start digging around for information that's not from a corporation trying to make money.

  

  Iris DeMent
  • Trying
  • Money
  • Start

• Good science fiction is always based in contemporary truths.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Good
  • Science
  • Fiction

• A lot of times on tour it's about, 'OK, where am I today? Wow, I'm in Costa Rica. What is their famous dish?' And it's about trying the food, and really experiencing it.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Trying
  • Food
  • Famous

• I've always felt so fortunate to have writing to turn to every day. I'm obsessed with it.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Writing
  • Day
  • Everyday

• South Africa is labouring to find its revolutionary path; the colours of the Rainbow Nation have difficulty blending together; the wealthy elites (white, black or Indian) profit from de facto segregation.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Together
  • Black
  • Path

• I saw the Sex Pistols, and they were terrible.

  

  Bernard Sumner Bad Lieutenant
  • Sex

• I hope that what you take away from my album is not just the music - which I did want to be fun, and I did want it to be about individuality, but please also take away from it that there's no dream that's too big.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Music
  • Fun
  • Hope

• I want to speak in the tradition of rhythm and blues and soul music, but also push how it's dressed and how it's delivered to the audience. And hopefully that gets embraced by as many people as possible, but the goal isn't necessarily to speak to everyone. The goal is to get it out as exact as it is in my head.

  

  Kelela Mizanekristos
  • People
  • Music
  • Soul

• I want to do television, film, music and designing. I want to do it all!

  

  Chanel Iman
  • Music

• I have always been a huge fan of reggae music. I remember going to see Bob Marley And The Wailers at the Hammersmith Odeon when I was 13. I went with my big sister, Cordelia, and it remains the most wonderful concert I've ever been to.

  

  Amanda Donohoe
  • Music
  • Remember
  • Sister

• In the end, you can't censor the truth, especially when it comes packaged in hot music.

  

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