Jay-Z (Shawn Corey Carter) Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I don't think I knew that you could be a novelist. I think a lot of my students are in the same condition. I thought it was unreachable, that it was sort of dead people. It took me a long time - I think I was well into novel writing before I really thought, 'Actually, this is a valid pastime.'
-
When I first got married to my husband, he had boxes full of photos of my two stepsons, ages 5 and 8 at the time, and I put them together in some little albums and wrote notes about how happy I was that they were a part of my life.
-
The judge is forced for the most part to reach his audience through the medium of the press whose reporting of judicial decisions is all too often inaccurate and superficial.
-
Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
-
I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
-
It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
-
Hip-hop is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight.
-
I stay true because whatever the project is, I'm still looking for inside of that character. It's the thing that connects him to me and to everybody else. So, the search is the same. It's to unveil the truth, and that's how I stay true, because my purpose isn't altered.
-
We watch our sons go to war, disagree with the rationale for sending them, loathe the men who ordered them to battle, and then, when the veterans come home, beg and plead with the local V.A. to ensure they have access to proper care.
-
My first memory in life is grilling my thumb to the griddle in our restaurant on Cape Cod.
-
The secret to everything for me is doing yoga every day. It does do nice things for your body, but it also kind of calms you down and chills you out. Other than that, I don't really drink alcohol and I always take my makeup off at night!
-
I'm interested in personalities, not political parties.
-
We have a tax code whose complications and levels of unfairness and levels of choosing people to give tax breaks to and choosing people to deny them to is thousands of pages long with endless complications and unbelievable manipulations by everybody.
-
Today is either the beginning of the end, or the end of the beginning. Today we are making history.
-
We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency.
-
It's essential for a fighter to go separately and just focus on training away from everybody else.
-
To me there is no picture so beautiful as smiling, bright-eyed, happy children; no music so sweet as their clear and ringing laughter.
-
One of the real worries I had before the first season of 'Treme' aired was that, man, people in New Orleans really hold movie and television shows up to a high standard in how they depict the city.
-
There have been moments in my career when I've had to be tough and I've had to step up to the plate - but usually that's because a man has underestimated me. But other than that, I wouldn't say I'm a tough person.
-
The more you practice, the better you get, the more freedom you have to create.
-
I did not want to depict Al Gashey as evil. I wanted him to come across as someone who did what he did for reasons that were compelling. Whether or not we agree with him is a different matter.
-
I'm not a religious person. Chances are that the universe neither treasures nor regrets us.
-
Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.
-
Rap has been a path between cultures in the best tradition of popular music.
