Jay-Z (Shawn Corey Carter) Quotes
What people do in their own homes is their business, and you can choose to love whoever you love. That's their business. It's no different than discriminating against blacks. It's discrimination, plain and simple.
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The next phase of the journey is to move from speculation to actual use cases - people getting into Bitcoin because they want to use it.
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In seventh and eighth grade, grammar and vocabulary were not my favorite subjects.
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Always render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.
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I see Turkey's future as being in Europe, as one of many prosperous, tolerant, democratic countries.
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All performances are different. I don't think it's necessary to compare one with another. I am just me playing the role of Lear. You're bound to get a Holm approach to it, whatever that may be. I just got out there and did it. I'm very much a doer in my acting.
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You don't stay married for thirty-nine years because of sex or even because of love, but because your partner is a real friend to you, because they respect and regard you.
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I have gotten more flak for being a conservative Republican than I have for being trans.
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What I'm interested in is the fascinating image of young leaders... you know, young people leading in different fields. You see athletes and people in gymnastics, where the requirement is that you are supple and very, very young... 11... and by the time you're 14, you're already over the hill.
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German writers in the late 18th century were the first to uphold a prickly, literary nationalism, in reaction to the then dominance and prestige of French literature.
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After the atomic bombs were dropped, the war ended and we went into Tokyo Bay with the rest of the fleet, the Missouri and the rest of them, while they signed the terms of surrender that ended the war.
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I know there is pain when sawmills close and people lose jobs, but we have to make a choice. We need water and we need these forests.
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The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.
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Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism.
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The mass of workers, as yet non-Socialist, is retarded in its development towards Socialism.
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I was willing to accept what I couldn't change.
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You can't trust water: Even a straight stick turns crooked in it.
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May it be long before the people of the United States shall cease to take a deep and pervading interest in the Fourth of July, as the birthday of our national life, or the event which then occurred shall be subordinated to any other of our national history.
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I could hum Beatles songs before I could talk - not very well, but sort of.
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I think that growth and spiritual awareness come in slow increments. Sometimes you don't know it's happening.
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Hockey's my favorite sport.
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You have not forgotten to remember; You have remembered to forget. But people can forget to forget. That is just as important as remembering to remember - and generally more practical.
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And none of these people, not one of them, had loved any of the others well enough. Failures, he thought, we're all failures... He wanted his love to be the wine and bread, and the blood and flesh. He reached for her, a dangerous stranger in a city of dangerous strangers, but she turned away from him and walked unsteadily through the crowd. How many loveless people walk among the barely loved?
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What people do in their own homes is their business, and you can choose to love whoever you love. That's their business. It's no different than discriminating against blacks. It's discrimination, plain and simple.
