Jay-Z (Shawn Corey Carter) Quotes
My thing is related to who I am as a person. The clothes are an extension of me. The music is an extension of me. All my businesses are part of the culture, so I have to stay true to whatever I'm feeling at the time, whatever direction I'm heading in. And hopefully, everyone follows.
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If DreamWorks and Disney need that name to sell the cartoon and get people in the seats, that's what they need. It's not fair, but there's plenty of other work for us to do.
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I figure that that has a ten year cycle. At the end of that ten years, I began to get worried that I would run into what is known as the writer's block, the feeling of not being able to do these things.
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I do not deal with threats and ultimatums.
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I got drunk when I was five. Everybody gets drunk before they're 21.
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The big tragedy in baseball is that the amateur spirit has gone out of it to a large extent.
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Hip-hop is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight.
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Information of fundamental importance to the general problem of atomic structure has resulted from systematic studies of the cosmic radiation carried out by the Wilson cloud-chamber method.
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Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.
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Adulthood is not a goal. It's not seen as a gift.
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I'm nearsighted in my right eye, have glaucoma in my left, and the nerves in my hands are on Medicare. Basically, I'm on the wrong end of a short sale.
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I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly.
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While 'Precious' isn't a real person, it's someone's story, and it's too many peoples' story.
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A big element of what they regard as conformity is simply a desire to have an audience.
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I had a guidance counsellor who made me take an aptitude test, and told me I should be a bricklayer.
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Because of my crazy work schedule, I have become something of a master at changing my clothes while driving. The men driving next to me love it.
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I had a long conversation with Steve Carlton. He told me that on the days he pitched, he felt it was his responsibility to make everyone around him better, to lift his teammates. That's what I try to do.
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The presumption of innocence, the benefit of the doubt, walking without worrying - these should not be hallmarks of white privilege. They are human rights - human rights - that should be enjoyed by all.
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I've seen a fair bit of the States and the rest of the world, and I'm convinced that there's nowhere I'd be happier, there's nowhere I'm missing out on because I'm in N.Y.
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I have ended as a Reform Rabbi, grateful to Christianity for so many good things.
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My theory has always been, if you take care of your business today, take care of the job you have at hand, whatever else comes down the road will be there for you.
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Sex got me into trouble from the age of fifteen: I'm hoping that by the time I'm seventy I'll straighten it out.
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It was a very vulnerable time going from being insecure about my body and who I am to becoming comfortable with me. I had to tune out what the hell everybody else had to say about who I was. When I was able to do that, I felt free.
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My thing is related to who I am as a person. The clothes are an extension of me. The music is an extension of me. All my businesses are part of the culture, so I have to stay true to whatever I'm feeling at the time, whatever direction I'm heading in. And hopefully, everyone follows.
