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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The so-called skills gap is really a gap in education, and that affects all of us.
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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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I've made some great mistakes in my life, but, you know, they were honest mistakes.
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I grew up in a very racially integrated place called Pottstown. It was an agricultural / industrial town which has since become a suburb of Philadelphia. I grew up basically in a black neighborhood.
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Obviously, the real test of these regulations will be their implementation, ... It is absolutely critical that the Air Force leadership ensure that these regulations are well understood and strictly enforced, especially at the Air Force Academy.
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I don't want to play with marbles, when God told me to move mountains!
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I remember the day we were hanging around the band's commune and Roger came in with the press kit for a rock band (Moby Grape) any of us had ever seen. It looked psychedelic, yet it was done by ad people. I believe the word "hype" was coined on that very day.
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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.
