Jay-Z Quotes

People really feel like music is free but will pay $6 for water. You can drink water free out of the tap, and it's good water. But they're OK paying for it.

Jay-Z

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GoodMusicWaterPeopleFreeYou

I think it is shocking that 15- and 16-year-olds leave school unable to add up and with the reading ability of a four-year-old.

Joan Collins

SchoolReadingThinkAbilityLeave

It's not our job to choose the best Sunday school teacher, like Jimmy Carter was. It's our job to choose who would defend and protect our nation, who would be the best president.

Jerry Falwell, Jr.

TeacherBestJobSchoolChoose

During the Cold War, we lived in coded times when it wasn't easy and there were shades of grey and ambiguity.

John le Carre

WarColdEasyGreyShadesCold War

I went on to Cincinnati. I had got a taste of the big cities and them bright lights. I stayed there until I was about 18 or 19 and then I went on to Detroit.

John Lee Hooker

LightsDetroitBrightTasteBigGot

I get my voice from my mother's side of the family. My mother and my grandmother both had strong voices.

Mavis Staples

FamilyMotherVoiceStrongSideGet

My dad, Frank Addison Albini, was a terrific shot with a rifle and had generally excellent hunting skills. While my dad loved hunting and fishing, he didn't romanticize them. He was filling the freezer, not intellectualizing some caveman impulse or proving his worth as a real man.

Steve Albini

FishingManLovedReal ManWorth

Losing my father made me want to find out if I could come up with a version of God or the afterlife that I could feel like was acceptable now that both my parents are in it.

Tracy K. Smith

FatherGodLosingParentsMeFeel

What's the difference between herpes and love? Herpes is forever.

Miriam Margolyes

LoveDifferenceForeverBetween

Personally, the NSA collecting data on me freaks me out. It totally freaks me out. And yet I'm from the generation that wants to put a GPS in their kids so I always know where they are.

Joss Whedon

MeGenerationDataKnowAlwaysOut

I believe we should be good custodians of the Earth.

Jonathan Nolan

GoodBelieveEarthI BelieveShould

I don't know that I've gotten much feedback directly from the literary world; sometimes I doubt even the notion that there is a literary world, though I guess there is or was.

Jonathan Ames

WorldFeedbackDoubtKnowSometimes

People will always make comparisons.

Don DeLillo

PeopleWillAlwaysMakeComparisons

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