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'm very easily distracted unless I have music on. Listening to music while I brainstorm makes me think of scenes that would fit the mood of the music I'm playing.
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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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If freedom is short of weapons, we must compensate with willpower.
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Even if I tried to tell myself that I had given him nothing, that the children were mostly mine, that they had remained within the radius of my body, subject to my care, still I couldn't avoid thinking what aspects of his nature inevitably lay hidden in them. Mario would explode suddenly from inside their bones, now, over the days, over the years, in ways that were more and more visible. How much of him would I be forced to love forever, without even realizing it, simply by virtue of the fact that I loved them? What a complex foamy mixture a couple is. Even if the relationship shatters and ends, it continues to act in secret pathways, it doesn't die, it doesn't want to die.
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The education of youth belongs to the priests, yet they do not take so much care of instructing them in letters, as in forming their minds and manners aright; they use all possible methods to infuse, very early, into the tender and flexible minds of children, such opinions as are both good in themselves and will be useful to their country, for when deep impressions of these things are made at that age, they follow men through the whole course of their lives, and conduce much to preserve the peace of the government, which suffers by nothing more than by vices that rise out of ill opinions.
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You deserve better from your entire government, all of us.
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I seen the worst of the worst. I deserve every blessing I receive I'm from the dirt.
