Jay-Z (Shawn Corey Carter) Quotes
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I have selective hearing.
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Life is too short to blend in.
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I feel fortunate that I'm able to play diverse roles. I don't think everybody in Hollywood gets the opportunity to do that.
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Nate Diaz is a tough opponent. I've fought him.
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It was my mother who got me involved in gymnastics, sending me to classes when I was six just to stop me doing back flips on the couch and destroying the furniture.
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Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.
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I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed.
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The incestuous relationship between government and big business thrives in the dark.
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The 24% unemployment reached at the depths of the Great Depression was no picnic.
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There really are three types of 'religious' movies: the ones that make fun of it, the ones that vilify it and the ones that literally preach to the converted.
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During my 8 years as chairman, I had the privilege to peer into the future to see dynamic citizen astronauts returning to and from the heavens which we can expect in the future.
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I used to love going to the garden centre as a kid. It made me feel relaxed.
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Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.
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The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and the ignorant believe to be liberty.
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Actors should never be important. Only directors should have power and place.
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The South of France is one of my favorite places in the world.
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I have a chef who makes sure that I'm getting the right amounts of carbs, proteins and fats throughout the day to keep me at my max performance level.
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Back home, almost everything I did, I did in Hebrew. I went to drama school in Hebrew, my whole career was in Hebrew, and to switch languages was something that was fascinating and more complicated than I expected it to be, even though I've been speaking English since I could speak.
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We shared our father with the world.
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Society is, and must be, based upon appearances, and not upon the deepest appearances, and not realities.
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I suppose the pleasure of the country life lies really in the eternally renewed evidences of the determination to live. That is a truism when said, but anything but a truism when daily observed. Nothing shows up the difference between the thing said or read, so much as the daily experience of it.
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I'm in love with Ariana Grande - she's got a very curious personality; I hear she loves Freddy Krueger, and I love Freddy Krueger, which makes me feel like we'd be perfect for each other.
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Someone once described Ken Lewis to me as the most competitive person in the history of the United States, including the Union Army.
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Hip-hop is a perfect mix between poetry and boxing.
