Jay-Z (Shawn Corey Carter) Quotes
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I have selective hearing.
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The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.
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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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It is the function of the President, representing the executive principle, to execute the laws.
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Nate Diaz is a tough opponent. I've fought him.
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I have so many pairs of oxfords; it's ridiculous. It started because at my school you have to wear oxfords for our uniform, but after I got my first pair, I realized they were really comfortable, so they became my regular walking shoes, too.
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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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I have cellulite. I admit it. But sometimes I just say, 'Screw it, I am going to wear a bikini.'
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Our life is a gymnasium of desire.... When Christians say "God," what do we wish to express? This word is all that we yearn for."
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In the old days, advertisers ventured on their own opinions. The few guess right, the many wrong. Those were the time of advertising disaster.
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Like some of my other movies, 'Conquest Of The Planet Of The Apes' is also a very political film, and many critics still consider it even the best of all the Apes movies, because it conveys a series of political viewpoints.
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It is cold at six-forty in the morning on a March day in Paris, and seems even colder when a man is about to be executed by firing squad.
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Hip-hop is a perfect mix between poetry and boxing.
