Jay-Z (Shawn Corey Carter) Quotes
I think Lil Wayne is extremely talented. I think he's one of the most talented ones out there.
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The sole ultimate factor in human decisions is physical force. This we must learn, however repugnant the idea may seem, if we are to protect ourselves and our institutions. Reliance on anything else is fallacious and ruinous.
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I don't think I have a signature.
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Other families who are poor do what they can to get out of it. My mother did not. She did not utilise her resources. She had a degree. There was something she could have done, but she actively, purposely refused that so we could have this absolutely authentic experience of the worst of capitalism: 'See? Look how bad capitalism is.'
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The reason I like Portland is the idea of going to a supermarket and knowing there's no way to be recognized. L.A. is so social.
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If you can live in Vegas, or visit Vegas, and leave in one piece, still loving it and somehow laughing about it, you should spend at least part of your last night in town doing something that will serve you well no matter where you go next: thank your lucky stars.
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It's still going on. I guess it will be until Redmond quits, dies or is jailed.
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I traveled a full two years with 'Language of Flowers.'
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I went into acting as psychotherapy, and it's still a work in progress.
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I should confess that I'm woefully under-read in South African fiction.
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Beneficial in theory, so-called free trade agreements far too often have been detrimental to the United States economy and the manufacturing sector that forms its central pillar.
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If you don't find time to meditate and get all that negative out, and if you don't have the right people being positive around you, this is a very scary job to have if you don't learn how to control your fear.
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Reason cannot calm the storm of emotion, and emotion usually wins, until it settles down and allows reason to rise again and apologize on behalf of it.
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'LazyTown' is basically about motivation. So what do I call motivation? I call it 'go.' The show is going to inspire kids to go. Go fishing. Go dancing. Go live.
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People employed in financial institutions are rarely interesting and even more rarely likable.
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Oil is ancient wealth in the ground.
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I like naturally occurring film grain, and what happens to film when it's under- and over-exposed.
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I'm quite intuitive about what I pick. Often it's to do with what I've just done and how I'm feeling.
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'Halo' I wrote with my grandpa in his nursing home. When I went to visit him, he'd often comment on my halo. But of course, I couldn't see. And he always - he had pictures of Jesus with these beautiful halos. And so I asked him if he'd write a song with me about Jesus' halo.
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When people silo themselves by belief, only affiliating with like-minded media organizations and people, we lose the opportunity for genuine conversation, much less persuasion.
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There are people so alienated from the mainstream of American culture that it's like a parallel universe. They don't expect anything but trouble from the square world. Every time they interact with that world, they're given a ticket, sent to jail, drafted. It's never good. So they live by a separate value system.
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Being who you are for ever is the price you pay for immortality.
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The first time you see something that you have never seen before, you almost always know right away if you should eat it or run away from it.
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Follow your image as far as you can no matter how useless you think it is. Push yourself.
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I think Lil Wayne is extremely talented. I think he's one of the most talented ones out there.
