Jay-Z (Shawn Corey Carter) Quotes
The reason I've been groundedand able to make albums, is because I've allowed my friends to come with me and voice an opinion. That's who keeps you grounded, the people who have known you longest.
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I think downloading is both saving and killing the music industry at the same time.
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I really don't care if people know who I am or what's said about me.
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Serena and I have done some great career planning, and we're playing really at the peak of our tennis right now. I think tennis has been a sport where people play this insane schedule from 14 years old, so of course at 26, it's over. We've really paced ourselves.
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All peoples have contributed to the overall progress and enhancement of human life.
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Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
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Someone told me, 'When you go see Pearl Jam, it's going to be a spiritual experience,' and it was. It was my first time seeing them live, and I've been a lifelong fan. Eddie Vedder's voice is a million times better live, and I couldn't believe the passion he put into every single song.
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I do have the odd dream where I'm on stage and I've completely forgotten what I'm meant to be performing - so they are more nightmares than dreams.
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All my brothers and my dad at one point had dreadlocks.
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Contrary to rumor, sometimes I can be quite a laugh.
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I feel like I missed a whole period of my childhood because I had a bunch of stressful things happen to me when I was like 17, 18, when people usually feel the most free in life, like going to college and like anything is possible.
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The whole fame question is one that is constantly intriguing to me. I think that fame is something that other people create about you. Whether you jump into that or not is up to you – and whether you have the talents for jumping into it or not.
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When you're in trouble, all you need is your bank card and passport, and you're fine.
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In my grandfather's lab, scientists did independent research, and peers reviewed and commented on its merits. Politics, he taught me, had no place in the scientific process.
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To the world you may be one person but to one person you may be the world.
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The older you get, the things that you thought you wanted to do when you were younger, you're checking them off your list because you no longer want to them.
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It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.
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Before I got into grad school, I used to work as a deck hand on these ferry boats in San Francisco, and they did day tours. It wasn't a bad job. I made decent money. But you were sitting down all day, tying up the boat, wiping it down. For some guys, that's a dream job, but for me it was kind of torture.
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I used to draw and make plastic figurines and watch 'Wallace and Gromit' films.
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In my opinion, some of the hip-hop records that come out, people are willing to compromise. I'm not.
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I want to see children curled up with books, finding an awareness of themselves as they discover other people's thoughts. I want them to make the connection that books are people's stories, that writing is talking on paper, and I want them to write their own stories. I'd like my books to provide that connection for them.
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I ruptured my plantaris muscle. It runs through the calf and goes down the side of your achilles and stretches right to the heel.
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I think it's easy to make impenetrable music that nobody can get, and you can hide behind that sometimes.
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What is national freedom if not a people’s inner freedom to cultivate its abilities along the beaten path of its history?
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The reason I've been groundedand able to make albums, is because I've allowed my friends to come with me and voice an opinion. That's who keeps you grounded, the people who have known you longest.
