Jay-Z (Shawn Corey Carter) Quotes
Whoever said that artists shouldn't pay attention to their business was probably someone w/their hand in some artist's pocket.
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The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.
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I've raised Michael. I changed his diapers when he was little.
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Gossip can be entertaining: occasionally, I've heard the most fascinating things about myself I never knew.
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When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.
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There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
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I take my kids to school... I make them breakfast. Unfortunately, dad is a big spoiler, and most days, I make four different breakfasts.
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I met will.i.am in the studio and played him a couple of songs and he liked them. We're similar but there's nobody in my lane doing what I'm doing.
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A woman who places a high priority on performance and excellence is seen as imperial. A man is seen as demanding and tough.
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With TV, you get on a show and you're there for 11 years playing the same character. I would pull my hair out. Yes, the money is good. But I'm really not in this business to chase dollars.
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My English teachers gave me a copy of Atwood's 'The Handmaid's Tale' when I left high school, which has always been very special to me - it was the novel that introduced me to dystopian fiction. I'm also influenced by Edgar Allan Poe, Dickens, John Wyndham and Middle English dream-visions.
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I love '30 Rock.' It's one of my favorite shows. It's certainly the gold standard of comedy writing.
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My brother and I had many games. We were inseparable. We had a little team going on between us. We had even a language that was kind of like pig latin. So we'd speak in the language. It's called Op.
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The most important thing to realise is that everyone is capable of telling a story. It doesn't matter where we were born or how we grew up.
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Well, I certainly did not think that I could do worse.
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I was at 260 at Tennessee because I was playing three-technique.
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If there is still an American dream, reading is one of the bootstraps by which we can all pull ourselves up.
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If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.
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I feel like I work on scripts for comedy as well as dramatic stuff the same.
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That feeling when you're so cold you'd give anything to be warm - I've had it before, literally huddled around a candle flame on an ice sheet.
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Whatever class and race divergences exist, top cats are tom cats.
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I go on a good many adventure-type trips. Whenever I go on one, it's always potentially going to be the setting for one of my books. I pay more attention to certain aspects than some other people might. Sometimes I use them, sometimes I don't. Most of the books I write are based on experiences I've had to some extent.
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I'm lucky. The best possible place in the world for training is Addis Ababa, so I am home all the time except when I am racing. I like to be there, near my family, my kids, also the real estate business I run with my wife.
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Whoever said that artists shouldn't pay attention to their business was probably someone w/their hand in some artist's pocket.
