Jay-Z (Shawn Corey Carter) Quotes
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I am completely in favour of dialogue and engagement. But it must be a true, open dialogue.
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You know Texas is - even more now that Enron has bit the dust - it's held up on the back of small businesses.
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She's been on more laps than a napkin.
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I've always been a writer, and in high school, I was the editor of my school newspaper and I got a writing scholarship. It's always been a passion of mine.
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The very qualities that make it harder for women to get elected - not being part of the old boy's network - gives them the advantage of having fresh, and yes, clean faces.
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I definitely like to play characters that don't fit any kind of mold; that are slightly offbeat, because it's more fun to play.
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I don't eat any dairy products at all, usually - it's a self-imposed ban. I've done it for a year now, since I was ill, but it's so hard.
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Stevie Wonder and Diana Ross and the Jackson 5, that's what I grew up on.
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The vanity of men, a constant insult to women, is also the ground for the implicit feminine claim of superior sensitivity and morality.
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Music is like my security blanket.
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If I went in to pitch this show to a network, I would be laughed out of the room.
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When I'm in the city, I like to go to different events and get introduced to different people. That's what New York is all about. There is great diversity, and there are people from all over the world who have done amazing things. That's my favorite thing to do: meet new people.
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The great writers just kept bringing them out. They didn't care if they repeated themselves.
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The great lesson my mother and father gave me was almost invisible. It was a strong sense of being rooted.
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Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
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If you do like what you do, you're cooperating and sharing.
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I always think it's really hard if you are Asian or Chinese to be really in Hollywood. There are not so many really great characters for you.
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African-Americans know about racism, but I don't think we really know the causes. I decided it's first of all a family problem.
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When I first reviewed the iPad, I wrote that, to succeed, 'It will have to prove that it really can replace the laptop or netbook for enough common tasks, enough of the time, to make it a viable alternative.'
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All actors almost always try to steal some of their wardrobe.
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What I do in my book is let people know about these programs.
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Yes, twenty-seven million in slavery is a lot of people, but it is just .0043 percent of the world's population. Yes, $23 billion a year in slave-made products as services is a lot of money but it is exactly what Americans spent on Valentine's Day in 2005. If humans trafficking generates $32 billion in profits annually, that is still a tiny drop in the ocean of the world economy.
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I think human nature is eternal and constant.
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Difficult takes a day Impossible takes a week I do this in my sleep
