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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It's very hard to transgress; we have the furniture of transgression without the imagery and iconography to actually do it.
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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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The government must do all it can to help reduce interest rates for business.
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When business starts using its voice for the benefit of the country as a whole, not just in its narrow self interest, it can really be the force that can make the changes that need to be made.
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For grace to be grace, it must give us things we didn't know we needed and take us places where we didn't know we didn't want to go. As we stumble through the crazily altered landscape of our lives, we find that God is enjoying our attention as never before.
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When I was confronted with official tuition, the academic thing, I could see no relationship whatever between that and the music I'd been writing since I was 11.
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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.
