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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People don't understand that the feel of the surface is so important for a footballer. The ball travels on the surface; our feet move on the surface - all of that goes into how the game is actually played.
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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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They didn't do this because they have facts, because they have solid proof against me. They did it because the president spoke and now they must prove that he was right and that is my great worry.
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The greatest competitive advantage in our modern economy is a positive and engaged brain.
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Rick Blaine: We'll always have Paris. We didn't have Paris, we lost it until you came to Casablanca. We got it back last night. Ilsa Lund: When I said I would never leave you. . . . Rick Blaine: And you never will. But I got a job to do too. Where I'm going you can't follow. What I've got to do, you can't be any part of. Ilsa, I'm no good at being noble but it doesn't take much to see that the problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world. Someday you'll understand that. Now, now . . . here's looking at you kid.
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Whenever you get to win, you feel the satisfaction of all of your hard work, all the sacrifices, all the blood, sweat and tears. It feels right and makes you realise that you are really doing the right thing.
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I got 99 Problems but Mitt ain't one.
