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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• 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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• Drama is easier to do because you just have to have the emotion and not get caught acting, but comedy is much harder.

  

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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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• 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.

  

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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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• The striking surprise is that prophets of Israel were tolerated at all by their people. To the patriots, they seemed pernicious; to the pious multitude, blasphemous; to the men in authority, seditious.

  

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• I have always had this secret fantasy of being a Bourne girl or Bond girl, and I've never even gotten called in on one of those roles.

  

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• We certainly do not forget you as soon as you forget us. It is, perhaps, our fate rather than our merit. We cannot help ourselves. We live at home, quiet, confined, and our feelings prey upon us. You are forced on exertion. You have always a profession, pursuits, business of some sort or other, to take you back into the world immediately, and continual occupation and change soon weaken impressions.

  

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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.

  

  Jay-Z
  • People
  • Men
  • Wise