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.
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I have never sought the reason why I write.
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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.
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I have such a huge girl crush on Beyonce.
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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.
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The power of the American people, when we rise up and stand for liberty, knows no bounds.
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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.
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Somewhere, in some city in America, someone is wearing my clothes, and I'm happy with that.
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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.
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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.
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As coaches, any work you may do, it's been done long ago.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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'Cause when I had my child, people tried to make me feel like life was over for me, and I started to believe that.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I have a particular dislike for children's films. I'm way past the novelty aspect.
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I don't forget what I used to do and so I can't justifiably say to my kid, "Don't you do that," when I used to do it myself.
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The people who say: 'You are what you eat' have always seemed addled to me. In my opinion, you are what you think, and if you don't think, you can eat all the meat in Kansas City and still be nothing but a vegetable.
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It's a fact of life. Hearts are always hurting. And yet they still keep pumping.
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The Nets' a stone throw from where I used to throw bricks ...So it's only right I'm still tossing 'round Knicks.
