Jay-Z (Shawn Corey Carter) Quotes

The Nets' a stone throw from where I used to throw bricks ...So it's only right I'm still tossing 'round Knicks.

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• I think politics can no longer be assigned to parliamentary activity and it probably never could be. But politics with a small p and the history of trade union movement really interests me.

  

  Saffron Burrows
  • History
  • Small
  • Politics

• I have never sought the reason why I write.

  

  Nathalie Sarraute
  • Why
  • Reason
  • Never

• Without this spirit, Modernist architecture cannot fully exist. Since there is often a mismatch between the logic and the spirit of Modernism, I use architecture to reconcile the two.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • Architecture
  • Logic
  • Often

• I have such a huge girl crush on Beyonce.

  

  Laura Carmichael
  • Girl
  • Crush
  • Beyonce

• When I was in my late 30s, I lit a figure on fire on Baker Beach in San Francisco. It was me, a friend, and maybe eight people, tops. There wasn't any premeditation to it at all. It was really just a product of San Franciscan bohemian milieu.

  

  Larry Harvey
  • People
  • Friend
  • Fire

• The power of the American people, when we rise up and stand for liberty, knows no bounds.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • People
  • Up
  • Power

• It's not like I'm starved for company - I have a few very good lady friends - but there's only a certain amount of times a woman wants to see you and never go out for dinner.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Good
  • Friends
  • Woman

• Somewhere, in some city in America, someone is wearing my clothes, and I'm happy with that.

  

  Raf Simons
  • America
  • Happy
  • City

• As weird as it is it to see yourself on screen, it made everything we've been through seem very real. And, well, London is only weeks away now.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Real
  • Weird
  • Yourself

• All honest work is good work; it is capable of leading to self-development, provided the doer seeks to discover the inherent lessons and makes the most of the potentialities for such growth.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Good
  • Work
  • Growth

• As coaches, any work you may do, it's been done long ago.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Work
  • Long
  • May

• Open eyes will discover opportunities everywhere; open ears will never fail to detect the cries of those who are perishing for assistance; open hearts will never want for worthy objects upon which to bestow their gifts; open hands will never lack for noble work to do.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Work
  • Eyes
  • Opportunities

• I was probably the best that ever walked this earth. And I could take a punch. I could deliver a punch. I didn't have the hardest punch in the world but my punches were sharp and they were crisp. And if you took too many of them, you would be knocked out.

  

  Larry Holmes
  • World
  • Earth
  • Best

• What I worry about is not just Nissan, but Japanese manufacturers losing motivation to maintain production in Japan. The high yen is definitely a headwind.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • High
  • Worry
  • motivation

• 'Cause when I had my child, people tried to make me feel like life was over for me, and I started to believe that.

  

  Fantasia Barrino
  • People
  • Life
  • Believe

• I'm kind of like an open wound all the time, and that's hard. It's hard to deal with, especially in this industry. Every time I leave a movie, I feel like I'm going to die. Because you connect with these people, and then they all leave. I wish I wasn't like that, but I am.

  

  Alex Wolff
  • People
  • Time
  • Movie

• I did some years of therapy and self-realization, and I just move and think at a slower pace - doesn't make me sound very smart! But really not reacting and doing more listening than talking, and letting people say what they need to say, and then maybe not saying anything at all.

  

  Natalie Maines
  • People
  • Think
  • Listening

• Malcolm X raised my consciousness about myself and my people and other people more than any person I know. I knew him before he became Malcolm X.

  

  Lena Horne
  • People
  • Myself
  • Person

• Baseball is my escape. The sights, the sounds, the way the park smells. There is truly no place I would rather be than at a game.

  

  Alyssa Milano
  • Game
  • Way
  • Baseball

• Active management is a zero-sum game before cost, and the winners have to win at the expense of the losers.

  

  Eugene Fama
  • Management
  • Cost
  • Winner

• Will without intellect is the most vulgar and common thing in the world, possessed by every blockhead, who, in the gratification of his passions, shows the stuff of which he is made.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Intellect
  • Passions
  • Gratification

• Overseas, church, Vatican You at a stand still mannequin

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Church
  • Stills
  • Bragging

• I guess that seeing yourself on a screen is something that you get used to. Let's face it, these days, there's really nothing that you do that doesn't get filmed.

  

  Lars Ulrich Metallica
  • Used
  • Screen
  • Filmed

• The Nets' a stone throw from where I used to throw bricks ...So it's only right I'm still tossing 'round Knicks.

  

  Jay-Z
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  • Used
  • Stones