Jay-Z (Shawn Corey Carter) Quotes

A wise man told me don't argue with fools. Cause people from a distance can't tell who is who.

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• So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.

  

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• Ancient Egyptians went to great lengths to avoid change; they couldn't entirely do so, of course, but did preserve a cultural continuity for almost four thousand years.

  

  Pamela Sargent
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• It's a trifle hard to surprise yourself with a story you've written.

  

  Ed Greenwood
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• War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name.

  

  Aaron Huey
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• In terms of people that I know, my grandmother and my mother are huge influences on my writing life because they are both massively supportive and always have been of my career.

  

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• Gene Hackman is one of the great American actors of all time.

  

  Lane Garrison
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• The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.

  

  Frances Burney
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• This is what people need: an easy-to-deploy, easy-to-use tool.

  

  Nat Friedman
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• I'm not interested in what other people are doing. That's their business.

  

  Paloma Faith
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• The 'Room 93' EP was just kind of picking apart the sense of voyeurism and the sense of isolation and turning it into, essentially, a little black book and reflecting on - at that time - 19 years of me forming relationships with people.

  

  Halsey
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• I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.

  

  Rachel Field
  • May
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• I've never had to pitch a movie to a studio. I usually just let people read the script, then I cast it. I always think pitching is for baseball.

  

  Harmony Korine
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• We always had money problems. Sometimes I would lie awake at night wondering how to pay the rent.

  

  Maj Sjowall
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• I'm a voracious reader, and I like to explore all sorts of writing without prejudice and without paying any attention to labels, conventions or silly critical fads.

  

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon
  • Writing
  • Attention
  • Explore

• Themes only arise after a novel is written, and people begin to try to talk about it.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • People
  • Try
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• At Nike, designers both created and communicated the brand, transforming a company that made shoes into a purveyor of athletic heroism.

  

  Tahl Raz
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• Abraham Lincoln is singular. Abraham Lincoln, before he was killed, stood up and, you know, for the first time from any sitting president, stood for the right for suffrage for African-American men who had served in the Civil War. And that's a limited suffrage, but it was quite radical at the time.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
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• Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young, but I have trouble remembering one line of a novel I just finished reading.

  

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  • Reading
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• Although in skating you compete with other people, anyone who achieves a certain level of success is first and foremost competing against themselves. And for me, the idea that I could always do better, learn more, learn faster, is something that came from skating.

  

  Vera Wang
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• If you're blessed enough to serve in public office, then you shouldn't just talk a good game about your values; you should cast your vote according to them.

  

  John Thune
  • Good
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• Where are Jesse Jackson and Rev. Al Sharpton? They don't speak for Black America, and they don't speak for me.

  

  Darryl Glenn
  • America
  • Black

• When you are born rich, you have all these options. You can pursue a career path that you find interesting; there's no need or pressure to start working to get funds just for survival, which is something a lot of people have to struggle with.

  

  Jamie Johnson
  • People
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• I only hope that people understand that if I've just come from the gym or am fresh off a red-eye flight and look like a sweaty mess, I might not be super keen on photo ops!

  

  Chris Wood
  • People
  • Hope
  • Red

• A wise man told me don't argue with fools. Cause people from a distance can't tell who is who.

  

  Jay-Z
  • People
  • Men
  • Wise