Jay-Z Quotes

I was never a worker. And that's not even being arrogant. I was just never a worker.

Jay-Z

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NeverArrogantBeingJustEven

When I was 18, I took a trip to Thailand with a friend. We stayed for a month. Bangkok was very raw for a teenager: there were no cellphones, no Internet, and the only music I had with me was this cassette by Liz Phair. I was writing a lot of poetry, and she embodied a talky style of songwriting that I found very accessible.

Jenny Lewis

FriendMusicStylePoetryMeShe

There's this fascination in America that more is better: we want that procedure. And more is not necessarily better when it comes to health care. We as consumers really need to understand that.

Matthew Heineman

HealthCareBetterAmericaWant

It is the faithfulness of God that allows epistemology to model ontology.

John Polkinghorne

GodFaithfulnessModelEpistemology

Diversity matters. You want your city departments to look like the city.

Michael Tubbs

DiversityCityYouLookWantYour

I don't really think about what the subject of my next album will be. I just know that I'm going to make another album.

Lou Reed

ThinkKnowWillNextGoingJust

Complacency by the watchdogs hurts both taxpayers and beneficiaries.

Chuck Grassley

ComplacencyHurtsBothBeneficiaries

You need to invest in areas where you can be the market leader because then you get a disproportionate share of the economics when you are.

Borje Ekholm

LeaderEconomicsYouNeedShareGet

I've had ample contact with lawyers, and I'm convinced that the only fortune they ever leave is their own.

Wilson Mizner

LawyersContactLeaveOwnFortune

I can't help slightly falling in love with every character I write about. And I quite like writing about people who are vilified.

Peter Morgan

LoveCharacterPeopleWritingHelp

Without naming names, you can take some of the biggest artists of the last 25-30 years and point to those moments where they thought they were going to be movie stars, put the entire weight of a film on their back, and it failed. And some of them didn't recover from that.

Scott Borchetta

StarsThoughtMomentsYouBack

There's been this strange irony to my whole life. All my original bandmates have died, when I was the most wild and most reckless of us all. But I'm still here.

Nile Rodgers

LifeStrangeWildIronyHereUs

Our boxing is not like the men's. It's more thoughtful, more technical. It's not just, 'Get in there and hurt someone.'

Nicola Adams

MenHurtSomeoneThoughtfulBoxing

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