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.
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It's a trifle hard to surprise yourself with a story you've written.
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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.
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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.
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The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.
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This is what people need: an easy-to-deploy, easy-to-use tool.
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I'm not interested in what other people are doing. That's their business.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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We always had money problems. Sometimes I would lie awake at night wondering how to pay the rent.
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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.
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Themes only arise after a novel is written, and people begin to try to talk about it.
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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.
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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.
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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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I liked painting and drawing, and I liked humanities mainly - poetry, literature - this speculative attitude toward life.
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The continental troops have as much courage and real discipline as those that are opposed to them. They are more inured to privation, more patient than Europeans, who, on these two points, cannot be compared to them.
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I vowed I wouldn't get married until someone gave me one good reason to. No one ever did - but I got married anyway
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We are building towards the future where people need not own their own cars.
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I just sort of try to be a good person; try to write music that lifts people and makes me feel good to sing.
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A wise man told me don't argue with fools. Cause people from a distance can't tell who is who.
