Jay-Z Quotes

When you're accustomed to wealth, you don't show it, right? That's why the white kids in school could wear bummy sneakers; it's almost like, 'Don't show wealth - that's crass.'

Jay-Z

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One hopes that they'll never be able to use mind control weapons, because we're all done for if that happens. I don't want military people, or political people, to have that type of power over those of us who just get by from day to day.

Joe Haldeman

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Life is having its way with me now. And I'm really pleased.

Jeff Bridges

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When it came to choice of subjects, science was obvious - since I was uninterested in anything else - but a decision that caused consternation in some eyes was my demand to take biology for A-level.

John Sulston

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You may be modest and un-egotistical in your life; I'm quite ordinary. But I play big egotistical parts.

Roger Rees

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You sell a screenplay like you sell a car. If someone drives it off a cliff, that's it.

Rita Mae Brown

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The Second Amendment says we have the right to bear arms, not to bear artillery.

Robin Williams

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I went down to the sewers in London and looked at a campaigning group in London called RATS, Rowers Against Thames Sewage, and I went to Sewage School and hung out with kids learning to make sewage soup and how to clean sewage. And it was great - really good fun.

Rose George

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I've been very blessed, and that has not escaped me.

RuPaul

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I promise not to become a source of shame for you.

Mikheil Saakashvili

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So is man's heart. The desire to perform a work which will endure, which will survive him, is the origin of his superiority over all other living creatures here below. It is this which has established his dominion, and this it is which justifies it, over all the world.

Jules Verne

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If I didn't feel that I was doing something or trying to do something for others, then I would have very little excuse for the life that I lead.

William T. Vollmann

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We spend our lives, all of us, waiting for the great day, the great battle, or the deed of power. But that external consummation is not given to many: nor is it necessary. So long as our being is tensed, directed with passion, towards that which is the spirit of all things, then that spirit will emerge from our own hidden, nameless effort.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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