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.
Barnaby C. Keeney
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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.
Felix Adler
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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.
Gary Bettman
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You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.
Major Owens
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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.
Wayne Dyer
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I was very good in all the maths and sciences.
Tamara Tunie
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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
Quentin Crisp
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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.
Frances McDormand
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
Natalie Dormer
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I get homesick.
Larry Bird
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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.
S. J. Rozan
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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.
Karan Mahajan
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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.
Abdolkarim Soroush
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Time has changed and now is the age of spending.
Zhang Yimou
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My hands, my feet, I throw my whole body to say all that is within me.
Mahalia Jackson
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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.
Natasha Richardson
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The laws of morals and the laws of music are the same.
Zoltan Kodaly
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I'm like all parents who try to shelter their children.
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
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A family needs to work as a team, supporting each other's individual aims and aspirations.
Buzz Aldrin
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Back in high school, I didn't ever see a Muslim homecoming king or queen - there was never even anyone nominated. It just seemed for a lot of those events, Muslim kids were not being included, and it was probably our fault too - no one was going for it, but no one was trying to push us to do it, you know?
Halima Aden
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I'm more afraid of falling than I am of flying high. I'm not as scared of dying as I am of growing old. Every battle has its glory and its consequence.
Ben Harper
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It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
Dag Hammarskjold
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' Daisies' is about a guy touching dead people and bringing them back to life. It's kind of morbid, you know. But there's a love to it. There's a kind-heartedness to it that I think makes it - I don't know; it's a good thing to put out there in the world, so I'm glad people responded.
Lee Pace
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If I don't show the world growth, how are we going to grow?
Jay-Z