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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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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The truth is not a bidimensional thing; it's not flat. It's rounded; it's like a sphere, so there's always a hidden face. There's one that is revealed because there's light reflecting on it, but there's always a hidden one, and once you go around to see the hidden one, it moves, and that's life.
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It is helpful for a woman artist not to have a husband.
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The first thing you have to do if you want to raise nice kids, is you have to talk to them like they are people instead of talking to them like they're property.
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My mom is really skinny, too. I got it from her. I've never done yoga before.
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If I don't show the world growth, how are we going to grow?
