Jay-Z (Shawn Corey Carter) Quotes

If you want the old me, go buy my old albums.

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• All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Failure
  • Human
  • Actions

• My memory of my home was that it was very happy, and that there was more fun and life there than there was anywhere else.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Life
  • Home
  • Happy

• If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually the tree has to fall down.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Day
  • Fall
  • Tree

• In America, black urban teenagers have long been lacking in inclusion. In France, there is a comparable lack of inclusion among North Africans. In much of Europe, there has been little attempt to include the Roma.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Long
  • America
  • Black

• I love doing what I do. I love asking questions. I love being in the mix.

  

  Larry King
  • Doing
  • Questions
  • Asking

• I adore Eddie Kaye Thomas and Jason Biggs. Eddie was the only one who called me when they were doing 'American Reunion' and told me, 'You need to do this.'

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • American
  • Me
  • Told

• The way to bring about change is to be proactive and active.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Way
  • Change
  • Proactive

• You begin to realize that the genius of our country is the constant push to be more inclusive and find new ways of engaging everyone.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • Country
  • Genius
  • Push

• I'm not the most technical producer, so the weird mixes and blown-out sound happen naturally.

  

  Washed Out
  • Weird
  • Sound
  • Producer

• I just felt like I had to create a life for myself where I was more independent.

  

  Karen Allen
  • Life
  • Myself
  • Independent

• I am definitely a dog person. I feel like Webster and I are very much alike.

  

  Calista Flockhart
  • Dog
  • Webster

• We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.

  

  Karl Popper
  • Freedom
  • Security
  • Plan

• Honestly, at times, I still get bored. 'Dancing with the Stars' kept me busy, and that's what I like. When I first started fighting, I was working two jobs, and I was still going to school at the same time while training. I'm meant to be a busy person.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • Time
  • School
  • Fighting

• I was ordained one of the standing High Council in Zion, under the hands of President Joseph Smith.

  

  Orson Pratt
  • High
  • President
  • Hands

• Little by little he came to recognize the difference between the spirits that agitated him, one from the enemy and one from God.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • God
  • Enemy
  • Difference

• I could have probably built a great career in management consulting, but one of the insights that I had early on is that just because you're good at something doesn't mean that you should continue to do it. Somewhere in my heart of hearts I knew it wasn't what I wanted to do.

  

  Imran Amed
  • Good
  • Great
  • Heart

• Here in America we're doing the most wonderful crafts.

  

  Beatrice Wood
  • America
  • Doing
  • Wonderful

• Wrestlers are a little more dedicated than, and are different from, the other people, which may be strange.

  

  Dan Gable
  • People
  • Different
  • May

• A solid family, as they say. They join me on location if they have a chance, but I can also be home three or four months doing nothing, so I probably see my kids more than people who work constantly all year long. If that changes, we'll have to have a family meeting.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • People
  • Work
  • Long

• Despite all the media coverage, glitz and glam of hedge funds, they have not done well for their investors. They have high - some say excessively high - fees; their short- and long-term performance has been poor.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Long
  • Done
  • High

• When you give a lot of confidence in people and you don't get it back, you are a bit disappointed, but it's life.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • People
  • Life
  • Confidence

• I think in the corridors of power these dangerous kinds of orders are issued in a much more vague way, passed down two or three levels of command before they're given to the assassin.

  

  Eddie Campbell
  • Power
  • Think
  • Down

• You can have it all but how much do you want it?

  

  Noel Gallagher Oasis
  • Want
  • Have
  • How Much

• If you want the old me, go buy my old albums.

  

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