Jay-Z (Shawn Corey Carter) Quotes

I jack, I rob, I sin. Aw man, I'm Jackie Robinson 'Cept when I run base, I dodge the pen

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• If I started worrying about how my constituents are going to react to every move I make, I wouldn't be able to do my job here. I'll do what I think is right and explain it later.

  

  Ed Harris
  • Job
  • Think
  • Right

• Sometimes entire categories of craigslist are rendered nearly unusable by spam. Con artists prowl the listings, paying sellers with fake cashier's checks and luring buyers to share their credit card numbers.

  

  Gary Wolf
  • Sometimes
  • Fake
  • Credit

• English is really free for me; there's no limits to the music and the imagination. And French, it's just I live in Paris, and it's really a poetic language where you can really play with words.

  

  Yael Naim
  • Music
  • Live
  • Free

• Save yourself some grief. Check with the publicist you hire to see what other books he/she has coming out at the same time as yours.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Time
  • She
  • Same

• It is true that when there's a drone attack, those - that the - the terrorists are killed, it's true. But 500 and 5,000 more people rises against it, and more terrorism occurs, and more - more bomb blasts occurs.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • People
  • True
  • Terrorism

• I think experience will teach you a combination of liberalism and conservatism. We have to be progressive and at the same time we have to retain values. We have to hold onto the past as we explore the future.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Future

• I am totally a fringe candidate, and so is Bill Weld: you know, two Republican governors serving in heavily blue states, outspoken, small government guys, outspoken on the social liberal side. We're fringe, totally. We're fringe.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Government
  • Republican
  • Candidate

• If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Humanity
  • Integrity
  • Through

• New York felt to me like what America should be - a representation of the world in this small pocket.

  

  Eddie Huang
  • World
  • America
  • Small

• My uniform is sweatpants, so crusted over with dried paint that they're as hard as a table. I wear T-shirts that are also covered in paint, and Crocs.

  

  Caio Fonseca
  • Paint
  • Table
  • Uniform

• One of the biggest issues for me is campaign finance reform.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • Me
  • Issues
  • Reform

• I just think old old movies, they make you concentrate and pay attention so much more. They feel so warm. A lot of modern digital videotape, it's just too bright. Don't know why, it's not warm.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Why
  • Think
  • Attention

• Twenty-first century war adds new risks: more and more often there are no front lines, no central command, no rules of engagement - only a chaotic collision of politics, power, faith and bloodlust. Victims are as likely to be civilians as soldiers.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Power
  • War
  • Faith

• Of course, in the United States, which at the time was a very young country, there were also class distinctions. They weren't as pronounced, but they quickly evolved as well.

  

  Iris Chang
  • Time
  • Country
  • Young

• Listen, I'm not a rich kid. I'm a cultured kid; I'm very rich in culture.

  

  Zac Posen
  • Culture
  • Rich
  • Listen

• It's hard to be funny when you have to be clean.

  

  Mae West
  • You
  • Funny
  • Clean

• Elementary considerations led me to the conclusion that a medium, composed of layers of different dielectric constants, must behave as a uniaxial crystal if it is assumed that the layer thicknesses are only a fraction of a wave-length.

  

  Karl Ferdinand Braun
  • Different
  • Crystal
  • Fraction

• If Queen Elizabeth knighthooded me and I would get the title Sir Usain Bolt. That sounds very nice.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Nice
  • Queen
  • Title

• L.A. doesn't have any big personality to me; it's not inspiring.

  

  Amy Lee Evanescence
  • Personality
  • Inspiring

• Reverse-engineer Hollywood is how I think of it. All the social-media stars are going in the back door, and everyone's trying to get in the front - there's a line outside. And then everyone's trying to sneak around back, but then there's security, you know? That's an analogy, I guess.

  

  Jake Paul
  • Trying
  • Door

• To crave wealth and honor, to demand power, to pile up riches, to gather all those vanities which seem to make for pomp and empty display, that is our furious passion and our unbounded desire.On the other hand, we fear and abhor poverty, obscurity, and humility, and we seek to avoid them by all possible means.

  

  John Calvin
  • Power
  • Desire
  • Poverty

• May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof.

  

  David McCullough
  • Men
  • May
  • Wise

• The earth laughs in flowers.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Nature
  • Earth
  • Flowers

• I jack, I rob, I sin. Aw man, I'm Jackie Robinson 'Cept when I run base, I dodge the pen

  

  Jay-Z
  • Men
  • Running
  • Sin