Jay-Z (Shawn Corey Carter) Quotes
For me, being with Obama or having dinner with Bill Clinton... It's crazy. It's mind-blowing, because where I come from is just another world. We were just ignored by politicians, by America in general.Jay-Z
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I don't like workouts that make you bulky.
Naomi Campbell -
I don't like comedians who don't have conviction, and with stand-up, it is always best to have an angle.
Jack Whitehall -
Americans are really obsessed with their teeth being white and straight, aren't they? I saw this little girl the other day with one of those whole head braces. Elastic all the way around! How traumatizing for a child to have to wear one of those! You look like a monster.
Kate Moss -
I've never got into debt and I've always been in control of my taxes and VAT, but having four children costs a lot. They are my weakness.
Sadie Frost -
I hate competition.
Marat Safin -
I like writing idealistically, romantically and swashbucklingly.
Aaron Sorkin
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Well, after the divorce, I went home and turned all the lights on!
Larry David -
By no means do I want to try to leave country music. That's absolutely where I want to stay.
Sam Hunt -
When I did 'Alien: Resurrection', a lot of the guys worked on planned production, and one of them was really into comic books and would draw all sorts of characters, and I was impressed with his sketches.
Gary Dourdan -
Eventually somebody will want me, and there will be a role that is mine.
Rachel Brosnahan -
If you look at a lot of the songs I've been involved in, there's always been this retro vibe. I started getting worried that I wasn't moving forward very much, nor was I even in tune with the music today. I almost scoffed at it.
Nate Ruess Fun. -
I take a lot of pictures.
Damian Loeb
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I was very aware of Jeff Buckley. My brother actually bought me The Mamas And The Papas and Jeff Buckley for my birthday when I was in my early teens.
Imogen Poots -
I don't have the activist temperament. I like listening to divergent points of view and hearing people out. I like getting along. I even like being liked, although activists of any stripe should get rid of that handicap at the outset.
Victoria Moran -
I could probably give you a list of a dozen pet peeves I have about my own physicality and why I couldn't get a second date.
Zachary Levi -
I've been married to the same woman for forty years, and whenever people ask us how we managed to stay married for so long, we usually say as one voice, 'What's the secret? Don't get divorced!'
Wavy Gravy -
I missed the television train at some point. I don't know what happened, but now I've created a complex about it. I'm missing out on what everybody's watching, and now I can't even begin to think about starting to watch a television show because it's been so long. I don't even have a Netflix account.
Dakota Johnson -
I was eight when I left Sarajevo, so I didn't really know very much about my culture and it was so important for me to go back to my roots and meet the people.
Zana Marjanovic
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On the one hand, I am a businesswoman - on the other, a wife and a mother. Like many women, I have had to distribute time and attention between business and family. It is not at all easy to find that balance.
Yelena Baturina -
In the society of men the truth resides now less in what things are than in what they are not. Our social realities are so ugly if seen in the light of exiled truth, and beauty is no longer possible if it is not a lie.
R. D. Laing -
I'd love it if doors open for me in America. There are directors I'd love to work with there. I'll always do theater, but I've got to pay the mortgage.
Lesley Manville -
Based on my own experience, when you're going through adolescence you don't know how the world works. You can't set a story in the world you live in because you don't know what a utility bill is, or how to budget your paycheck.
Patton Oswalt -
For me, being with Obama or having dinner with Bill Clinton... It's crazy. It's mind-blowing, because where I come from is just another world. We were just ignored by politicians, by America in general.
Jay-Z