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.
Quotes to Explore
-
So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
-
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.
-
It's a trifle hard to surprise yourself with a story you've written.
-
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.
-
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.
-
Gene Hackman is one of the great American actors of all time.
-
The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.
-
This is what people need: an easy-to-deploy, easy-to-use tool.
-
I'm not interested in what other people are doing. That's their business.
-
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.
-
I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
-
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.
-
Jordan has to show the Arab world that there's another way of doing things. We're a monarchy, yes, but if we can show democracy that leads to a two-, three-, four-party system - left, right and center - in a couple of years' time, then the Muslim Brotherhood will no longer be something to contend with.
-
We always had money problems. Sometimes I would lie awake at night wondering how to pay the rent.
-
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.
-
The so-called skills gap is really a gap in education, and that affects all of us.
-
Themes only arise after a novel is written, and people begin to try to talk about it.
-
At Nike, designers both created and communicated the brand, transforming a company that made shoes into a purveyor of athletic heroism.
-
If you skate with an Olympic level skater, they make you so much better because you're skating behind them, and you're trying to imitate their stride and their stance. It's like having the world's greatest training wheels.
-
John Boehner was and is an unprincipled ward-heeler who simply couldn't weather the transition of the Republican Party from a corporatist party with a sizable conservative base to a purely conservative party.
-
As a parent, you go through a whole lot of really tough things, and you kind of want other parents to experience those tough things as payback - especially when it's your brother.
-
The dignity of man is vindicated as much by the thinker and poet as by the statesman and soldier.
-
No talent lies in my dancing.
-
A wise man told me don't argue with fools. Cause people from a distance can't tell who is who.
