Jay-Z (Shawn Corey Carter) Quotes
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The scramble to get into college is going to be so terrible in the next few years that students are going to put up with almost anything, even an education.
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Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.
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I think there's always a line between what is parody in good fun in chanting and what is intended to belittle certain segments of society.
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You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.
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I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.
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I was very good in all the maths and sciences.
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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
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Here's what I have at my advantage: I've never been a personality. I've always been a character actor.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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I get homesick.
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The poor and minorities are disproportionately both crime's perpetrators and its victims. People are saddened when this happens but not surprised.
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In the five months I wrote the final draft of 'The Association of Small Bombs,' I never fell out of the book. The world was real to me: plausible and powerful.
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After the 9/11 incidents, Islam has become a big question mark among westerners, especially Americans. The mass media constantly raise the issue of relationship between Islam and terrorism.
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Time has changed and now is the age of spending.
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My hands, my feet, I throw my whole body to say all that is within me.
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I'm not the kind of actress that goes home with the character. I mean, you're thinking about the work or the next day's scenes, but not staying in character. But as a film goes on, you become more and more fragile, emotionally. And physically too, actually.
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The laws of morals and the laws of music are the same.
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I'm like all parents who try to shelter their children.
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I'm always listening and watching; my ear is like a boom mike. And judging, frankly. Constantly judging.
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If I wasn't an actor, I would probably be writing or doing something with psychology.
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I've been called everything. Gangsta rap. I've been called conscious rap. You know, everything. Whoever feels like calling it whatever they want to call it, that's on them.
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I sit on a man's back, choking him, and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by any means possible, except getting off his back.
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If you have never taken the train across Canada, you really should put it on your life list... Meanwhile, I get to sit back and watch for moose from the dome car as we roll through the lake-dotted vastness of the boreal forest.
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If I don't show the world growth, how are we going to grow?
