Jay-Z (Shawn Corey Carter) Quotes
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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.'
Rachel Cusk -
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.
Irving R. Kaufman -
I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
Camille Claudel -
It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
Jackie Robinson -
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.
Forest Whitaker -
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.
J. D. Vance
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My first memory in life is grilling my thumb to the griddle in our restaurant on Cape Cod.
Rachael Ray -
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!
Kate Beckinsale -
I'm interested in personalities, not political parties.
Sam Wyly -
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.
Barry Diller -
Today is either the beginning of the end, or the end of the beginning. Today we are making history.
Eckhard Pfeiffer -
We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency.
Eamon de Valera
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It's essential for a fighter to go separately and just focus on training away from everybody else.
Fedor Emelianenko -
To me there is no picture so beautiful as smiling, bright-eyed, happy children; no music so sweet as their clear and ringing laughter.
P. T. Barnum -
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.
Wendell Pierce -
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.
Tamara Mellon -
Well, I don't really concern myself too much with what other people make of my work.
P. J. Harvey -
Generally speaking, if a human being never shows anger, then I think something's wrong. He's not right in the brain.
Dalai Lama
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Illusions of grandeur are not the same as visions of greatness.
Edwin Louis Cole -
The infant mortality rates are insanely high. The obesity epidemic is on the rise. It is all related.
Kimberly Williams-Paisley -
If I knew my schedule a month ahead, I'd be so bored.
Joel Edgerton -
I pride myself as being a very supportive parent. I go to my daughter's soccer games. I hit most of them. I try to go to all of them.
Bill Simmons -
Ah, the magic of music, with it, all things are possible.
E. A. Bucchianeri -
Rap has been a path between cultures in the best tradition of popular music.
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