Jay-Z (Shawn Corey Carter) Quotes
Well I'm not just gon' go and do rap songs. I wanna touch, and maybe help, and see what I can do in these areas.' As I start looking around me, looking at things in ways that I can become helpful, starting at the first thing, water. Something as simple as water.
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I am in love with myself, with my friends, with my family, with kids, with life and my movies.
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I know that I was put on this planet to be an athlete.
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I go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him.
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I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands society's care.
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I know exactly what it's like to stand on top of a tall building or in a high place and look down and go, 'Ohhhh my God.' I try to get into that place every time I write a scene like that. And definitely when I write the action scenes, I get overheated and my heart goes really fast. I get very involved.
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I have lost my mental faculties but am perfectly well.
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English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.
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The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.
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Actor's life is very long.
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Discouragement, fear, doubt, lack of self-confidence, are the germs which have killed the prosperity and happiness of tens of thousands of people.
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I certainly don't have any boundaries myself, but I think I'm very aware of other people's.
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Jail is definitely not cool. Education is.
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Horrors, I believe, should be original - the use of common myths and legends being a weakening influence.
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You reach a point in your career when the weeks turn into a month or more of the phone not ringing.
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People assume actresses are afraid to get older; the truth is the roles get a whole lot more compelling once you're too old to play dumb.
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I am proud of where I came from, and I am proud of what I've been able to achieve through hard work and perseverance. And I guarantee you that anyone who tries to say otherwise hasn't walked a day in my shoes.
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I like to think I'll just be walking down the street one day and stop and meet someone, like, 'Oh my God, you're awesome,' and then we start dating.
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The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
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Actors just need each other to act together.
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I wasn't asleep! said Bruno, in a deeply-injured tone. 'When I shuts mine eyes, it's to show that I'm awake!'
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Every song is like a kid. How can you have that many kids and have a favorite? Which one do I like to hang most with?
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I've always felt that to deliver a song successfully, you have to be an actress. A good actress becomes the part, just as a good singer becomes the song.
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I didn't learn to swim until I was 21 or something because I grew up in the mountains in Wyoming and all the water is glacier runoff and cold.
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Well I'm not just gon' go and do rap songs. I wanna touch, and maybe help, and see what I can do in these areas.' As I start looking around me, looking at things in ways that I can become helpful, starting at the first thing, water. Something as simple as water.
