Jay-Z (Shawn Corey Carter) Quotes
I'm hungry for knowledge. The whole thing is to learn every day, to get brighter and brighter. That's what this world is about. You look at someone like Gandhi, and he glowed. Martin Luther King glowed. Muhammad Ali glows. I think that's from being bright all the time, and trying to be brighter.Jay-Z
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The way I create music is maybe like a painting, to compose in a more visual way. Basically it's the music that I want to hear- that's my inspiration and bottom line. I just try to get ideas from books, movies, paintings.
Ikue Mori -
I didn't know much about golf growing up.
Yogi Berra -
If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.
Vin Scully -
I have a love/hate relationship with just about everything, but certainly with America.
Gary Shteyngart -
True, I was born and raised in Chennai, fluent in Tamil, but essentially, I am a Telugu guy and a Telugu actor.
Mahesh Babu -
I mean, I was always interested in people like Lenny Bruce, people who are breaking the old rules and making new ones.
Faye Dunaway
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The fact that Western Muslims are free means that they can have enormous impact. But it would be wrong to claim that we are imposing our ways on the West. New ideas are now coming from the West. To be traditional is not so much a question of protecting ourselves as to be traditionalist in principle.
Tariq Ramadan -
The most fascinating person is always the one of the most winning manners; not the one of greatest physical beauty.
Orison Swett Marden -
It's still going on. I guess it will be until Redmond quits, dies or is jailed.
Farrah Fawcett -
Do not deceive or be faithless even with your enemy.
Abu Bakr -
I don't like denial. I don't like repression.
C. K. Williams -
So, it's like: I'm an OK singer; I'm an OK guitar player and you put them together and... it's just OK.
Callie Thorne
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Not obsessed with particularly Nike, but sneakers in general. I love them.
Idris Elba -
Boning is a pain, but it makes such a majestic chicken.
Daniel Boulud -
There is a very thin line between confidence and arrogance.
Adam Peaty -
Since belief determines behavior, doesn't it make sense that we should be teaching ethical, moral values in every home and in every school in America?
Zig Ziglar -
Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
Rainer Maria Rilke -
If you look at any normal organization, the CEO is the person with the highest E.Q. The person with the highest IQ is often in the back room running the financials or the operations. That's topsy turvy.
Walter O'Brien
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P. 27.
Amitabh Bachchan -
People under-invest in family because it doesn't pay off until the long term.
Clayton Christensen -
I'd love to have our trains, our subway cars and our taxis built right here in New York City. You can create 40,000 living wage jobs... the city's contracting power is huge.
Sal Albanese -
There are movies I've seen or books I've read that attach themselves in a way that's greater than the ability to understand why. How do you explain that kind of connectedness?
Peter Riegert -
You are more than the Earth, though you are such a dot: You can love and think, and the Earth cannot!
William Brighty Rands -
I'm hungry for knowledge. The whole thing is to learn every day, to get brighter and brighter. That's what this world is about. You look at someone like Gandhi, and he glowed. Martin Luther King glowed. Muhammad Ali glows. I think that's from being bright all the time, and trying to be brighter.
Jay-Z