Jay-Z (Shawn Corey Carter) Quotes
I was forced to be an artist and a CEO from the beginning, so I was forced to be like a businessman because when I was trying to get a record deal, it was so hard to get a record deal on my own that it was either give up or create my own company.
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In China, a lot of the opening up of private entrepreneurship is happening because women are starting businesses, small businesses, faster than men.
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A woman going out with a younger man feels like the last taboo.
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I was a scapegoat. The media had to put responsibility on somebody, and I was chosen. They felt free to say that because someone was thin they were anorexic, which is ridiculous.
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Any time Khaled comes to your video, it just steps it up that much more. He's so fun; people love him.
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I used to conduct the last opera in Berlin on Sunday, get on a plane on Monday to Chicago, and start a rehearsal that same night, if it was a performance week.
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I look good. I feel good and not to sound conceited I sound great.
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I've always been very in tune to my voice and to other people's voices and how they express themselves vocally. And I always loved accents and dialects - I collected them like stamps.
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I don't like baseball movies. I like movies about moral courage and people who are indomitable and courageous and right.
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Before every show, we get into a circle, hold hands, and someone makes a speech. Most bands are too cool for that.
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I really think more fledgling novelists - and many current and even established novelists - should get out into the real world and cover local politics, sports, culture, and crime and write it up on deadline.
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What I am going to tell you is this: Although it is commonly believed that the War on Terrorism is a noble effort to defend freedom, in reality, it has little to do with terrorism and even less to do with the defense of freedom.
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I longed to be bright and most certainly never was. I was rather hopeless, I suspect.
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Sometimes when you're drunk you can see better.
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Grant that the true organ with which the beautiful is apprehended is the imagination, and it follows that all arts are likely to affect the feelings indirectly.
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I remember having my father stand over me when I had driven over my own foot; one leg was out of the car and one leg was in the car. He looked at me and told me that I was a drunk and that he was ashamed to call me his son. That night, I stopped drinking and I never drank again; I was twenty four.
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I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.
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People like to see honest persons. So I certainly will advise many young people who want to participate in politics, honesty is the best policy.
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People never think of entertainers as being human. When you walk out on stage, the audience think, 'Nothing can go wrong with them.' We get sick and we have headaches just like they do. When we are cut, we bleed.
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I'm not afraid to have no make-up on and no hair. I just want to be stripped back.
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Comedy appeals to the collective mind of the audience and this grows fatigued; while farce appeals to a more robust organ, their collective belly.
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I like all types of music. Even though rap music is 80 percent of what I listen to, it's not the only thing I listen to.
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The only fear I have is that I will wake up one day and nobody will allow me to do films. This is a fear every actor has.
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Lean gives you such stomach pain. I'll never forget the time I was at South by Southwest and had to do all these shows, and I sitting on the couch curled up, hours of pain...That wasn't the moment I quit, that was the moment when I said I need more.
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I was forced to be an artist and a CEO from the beginning, so I was forced to be like a businessman because when I was trying to get a record deal, it was so hard to get a record deal on my own that it was either give up or create my own company.
