Jay-Z (Shawn Corey Carter) Quotes
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One of the things you want as a successful writer is the anonymity.
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I am interested in the subject which is Russia.
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The life of an actor is never one to get comfortable.
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I plan to go to university - but for sure, acting is what I want to do. It's a hard business, but I believe in my heart that I'll be doing it for a very long time.
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I don't see a white woman. I see a black woman, even though my mother is white. Knowing that has made my life easier, I think.
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I came into the rap game in 1992; my life was changing, but my group wasn't successful; I also saw the biggest rappers in the world die all of a sudden in the ensuing years, so it was a matter of conquering yourself before you can conquer the world.
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Like funny men, skilled diners are apparently perceived to have an evolutionary advantage.
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In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.
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Becoming a dad was the proudest moment of my life. Playing football does not even compare.
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Basically, particularly in Britain, it's a hegemonic thing that people who write tend to come from the leisure classes. They can afford the time and the books.
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The struggle to conquer oppression in our country is the weaker for the traditionalist, conservative, and primitive restraints imposed on women by man-dominated structures within our movement, as also because of equally traditionalist attitudes of surrender and submission on the part of women.
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If dogs could talk, perhaps we would find it as hard to get along with them as we do with people.
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In the future, I want a movie career, kids and a happy marriage.
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If I wanted to make spy movies for the rest of my life, that would be one thing, but I don't want to just make spy movies.
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If it's a good cause, I'll play just about anything.
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And he was going to give me a song, because I'm a singer and I wanted to sing in everything.
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I've never set out consciously to write American music. I don't know what that would be unless the obvious Appalachian folk references.
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A life of nothing's nothing worth, From that first nothing ere his birth, To that last nothing under earth.
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Anytime I'm involved with anything that's well-received, it's a surprise to me.
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Enjoy the honey-heavy dew of slumber.
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The life of a devotee is a crusade of which the heart is the Holy Land.
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Singing is a kind of sport and a singer a kind of athlete and following this model becoming "vocally fit" - building vocal muscles - should be the point of any form of voice teaching. Other approaches don't work directly on building vocal muscles but instead focus on so-called diaphragm support and breathing, mask singing, breath control, throat relaxation - all of which are useless at best and harmful at worst.
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I seen the worst of the worst. I deserve every blessing I receive I'm from the dirt.
