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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The new environment dictates two rules: first, everything happens faster; second, anything that can be done will be done, if not by you, then by someone else, somewhere.
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When government takes away options, it is bound to make some people worse off, even with intrinsicallly good intentions behind that government intervention.
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When I came to America in 1978, I was a huge sports fan - the problem was, my sport was cricket. Shockingly enough, no one wanted to talk cricket with me!
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I got 99 Problems but Mitt ain't one.
