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.Jay-Z
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So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
Uma Thurman -
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 -
It's a trifle hard to surprise yourself with a story you've written.
Ed Greenwood -
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 -
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.
Tea Obreht -
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 -
This is what people need: an easy-to-deploy, easy-to-use tool.
Nat Friedman -
I'm not interested in what other people are doing. That's their business.
Paloma Faith -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
Themes only arise after a novel is written, and people begin to try to talk about it.
Rachel Kushner -
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 -
In a way, architecture is about communication. That's an aspect of the discipline that is somewhat lacking, and there's definitely room for more progression into that area. I suppose that gives me a bit of a different edge. I'm also very, very used to doing a lot of exhaustive research and finding interesting information from different sources.
Magnus Larsson -
It's the federal government's job to secure the border.
Carly Fiorina
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You're only as good as the sum of your parts, and one person can't be a team.
David Schwimmer -
I think part of that is to create an environment where it's like real life, where you don't really know what's going to happen to you in a certain scene.
Radha Mitchell -
Writing a novel is so hard, and there are so many problems that the last thing you're thinking about is adapting this mess you have on your hands as a movie. You just want to get it to work as a novel. That's your main focus.
Maria Semple -
I spent so many years with people saying, 'Hey, you're like America's boyfriend!'
Luke Wilson -
So I can go and let out everything that I feel about every bogus weekly cover, every single bogus skit, every single rumor and barber shop-everything that people feel is ok to treat celebrities like zoo animals, or act like what they're saying is not serious, or their lives are not serious or their dreams are not serious.
Kanye West -
A wise man told me don't argue with fools. Cause people from a distance can't tell who is who.
Jay-Z