Jay-Z (Shawn Corey Carter) Quotes
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Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him more pleasing to others.
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I'm a man that believes what I see, and everywhere I go... and everywhere I've been... I get nothing but love.
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I love so many styles of music.
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Once you are a model, you do have to fly a million red-eye flights, and you do have to entertain a different client every single day.
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Having a million-dollar net worth doesn't make you a genius, and having less than a million-dollar net worth doesn't make you a fool.
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Not even analysis, by itself, can transform you. You must still do the changing yourself.
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I know some black actresses who have to wait every 19 films for a role. I can be cast in practically every one as a young white male.
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I must write the book out in my head now, before I sit down.
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I've always been a very outdoors sort of girl. I'm more a tomboy than a girly girl.
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Part of being a top-20 firm is mind-share.
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Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.
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I mean, I was first offered Princess Astra.
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There have been weeks when I've not been hydrating properly or not eating properly or training too hard. When I do that, I don't feel good. It has to be the exact formula.
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A designer is like a doctor for a woman. He has a specific job, and if he is doing it well, he will have the gratitude of the woman for the rest of his life.
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What people don't appreciate, when they picture Terminator-style automatons striding triumphantly across a mountain of human skulls, is how hard it is to keep your footing on something as unstable as a mountain of human skulls. Most humans probably couldn't manage it, and they've had a lifetime of practice at walking without falling over.
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More and more, we're used to taking things in through the eyes rather than through the ears, and opera is more of a spectacle.
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Every diminution of the liberty of the press is followed by a diminution of civilization. Wherever we see the freedom of the press interfered with, there we see the nutrition of the human family interrupted.
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What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
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In a family business, you grow up with close contact to the business, whatever it is, and the beer business is certainly a very social type of business.
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Millions of centuries of voyaging via animals, water, and wind brought my snail's family to colonize the woods near where I was staying. It was by chance that my snail's path had intersected with a human trail, just as a friend - the sort of friend who stopped for a snail - was passing by. The history of gastropod travel now included the unexpected journey of my own snail, which had arrived at my bedside by human transport.
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I don't want to be the center of attention, which is ironic. I hate having all eyes on me - unless it's for my job, and my job is playing football. I'm not that attention-hungry.
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You’re allowed to believe in a god. You’re allowed to believe unicorns live in your shoes for all I care. But the day you start telling me how to wear my shoes so I don’t upset the unicorns, I have a problem with you. The day you start involving the unicorns in making decisions for this country, I have a BIG problem with you.
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When someone covets something they desire and lust over it.Usually it's something they can't have. You've always had that problem.
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I got 99 Problems but Mitt ain't one.
