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TED CRUZ Remember when Jay-Z wore a Che Guevara T-shirt? Nobody knew who Che was. Then Jay-Z wears it, and it...
LAMAR ODOM There's Jay-Z, who morphs a certain street hustler's cool and indifference into CEO extravag...
MICHAEL PATERNITI Intelligent people tend to talk about the facts. They don't sit around and call each other names...
BEN CARSON What's important is that people realize that I can't be put into a box musically. I've s...
TREY SONGZ I don't know if I have a 'Greatest Album Ever.' I really liked 'The Blueprint' b...
HANNIBAL BURESS I'm a fan of Jay-Z, I'mma always be a fan of Jay-Z.
T-PAIN Actually, I don't even like parties. I would much prefer a room with four friends who sit around...
SALMAN RUSHDIE I can't sit around having coffee. I have all these appointments, and a lot of my friends sit aro...
EVA MARIE SAINT When I talk football with my friends, I don't talk about Tom Brady's hair. I talk about how ...
INDRA NOOYI People think because I've got some success, I've made it, but in my eyes it's like, '...
J. COLE I don't sit well. I like to move around as I talk.
GARRY MARSHALL I don't like to intellectualize about my acting. I don't sit around and study the pages of a...
GENEVIEVE BUJOLD DMX wasn't checking what his fans were saying to him on Twitter or Facebook. Jay-Z is on a boat ...
THEOPHILUS LONDON I would love to have a conversation with you when we're working, and if I'm at a basketball ...
EMILY RIOS I was brought up by my mum and my sister. I've always been around independent women; I like that...
AARON TAYLOR-JOHNSON Jay Z wasn't great when 2pac and Biggie was alive.
FUTURE I find a lot of things kind of funny and I often say what's on my mind, and then get nine texts ...
KATE BECKINSALE People that are 40, they don't sit around at talk about gray hair and how it covers their hair. ...
ANDIE MACDOWELL If I don't talk about my religion, if I say I'm not discussing it or different humanitarian ...
TOM CRUISE Journalists ask me, 'Why don't you ever talk about sex in your performances?' True, I do...
GAD ELMALEH I'd like to collaborate with Jay-Z and Mary J. Blige.
ROBIN THICKE Frankly, most of my friends hold very different political beliefs. It's just a funny thing in th...
PATRICIA HEATON My favorite artists are Kanye West, Jay Z, the Fugees, Lauryn Hill, Destiny's Child.
BEBE REXHA I don't do this for the money, I don't do it for record sales, I don't really care about...
DAVID GUETTA Jay-Z called me onstage during my song that I produced for 'Watch the Throne?' That was surr...
HIT-BOY It's hard to get people at a record company to talk about music. They don't seem to want to ...
HENRY ROLLINS You go to any Jay-Z concert, and he plays his hits. Comedians don't have hits. You have to have ...
AZIZ ANSARI I'm basically different things to different people. If it's a guy, I'm-a probably have m...
THE NOTORIOUS B.I.G. I'm not saying that what the radio plays isn't good. My issue is with what they don't pl...
DJ JAZZY JEFF You could have a zillion Facebook followers. Those people don't buy records. It's about a hu...
BILLY CORGAN I never talk about my opponent because I don't think it's my right to judge.
DAN WEBSTER Jay Leno told me once, 'Don't do jokes about things you don't know about.'
BILL ENGVALL Some of my friends say that I only talk about myself. But it is funny: my house is covered in art bu...
MARIO TESTINO I think I'm a living embodiment of, 'Don't try to push me around or squash me,' whet...
BONNIE RAITT If you ask me about my views on the environment, on women's rights, on gay rights, I am liberal....
BERNIE SANDERS I just want to make music, I don't want people to talk about me. All I've ever wanted to do ...
ADELE I like to be home on a Friday night. I don't go out. I don't go to clubs. It's not my th...
KALEY CUOCO There's a cardinal rule that you don't talk about sharks. If you don't see it, it's ...
MARK WARKENTIN What I absolutely can't do is just sit around, that drives me crazy. I go nuts! I'm far too ...
JONATHAN DAVIS I like to talk to people. I've got one assistant, one Blackberry. That's my overhead. I don&...
MARK WAHLBERG That's how I judge a quarterback: Either you make plays or you don't. I don't even want ...
FRAN TARKENTON When I testify, I'll testify. I don't need to sit around chewing my fingernails.
MARK FUHRMAN I like to talk about my obsession with french fries because I don't want people to think that &#...
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EUGENIE BOUCHARD I don't know how many times I can sit there and talk about my character or my life. It's int...
WENDIE MALICK I have a family, loving aunts, and a good home. No, on the surface I seem to have everything except ...
ANNE FRANK I do a lot of referendums. They can't talk back. They don't have wives. They don't have ...
ROGER STONE I really can't describe what my stand-up is like - people see it and they say it's like that...
DYLAN MORAN I want to make as much money as I possibly can so that when my day comes, my mother and sister is fi...
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RUPAUL I care about money, very much. I want it. I don't ever want to be without it. My mother once sai...
ELAINE STRITCH I'm working on Leno. He's from my home state, Massachusetts. And my home country, Italy. I s...
JOE ARPAIO I like banks because they keep my money safe, but I don't want to talk about banks 12 times a ye...
CAROL BARTZ Some people are really proud of me, and some don't like it. I don't really know what to tell...
BRYSON TILLER I grew up a Catholic and I don't want to talk badly about the Catholic Church but there's a ...
BERNHARD LANGER My parents were the traditional Filipino parents who didn't talk about money around the dinner t...
BO SANCHEZ I want money; I just don't want that money lying around.
NATHAN KIRSH I don't like talking unnecessarily, and my communication skills are zilch. I just can't conv...
PRITAM CHAKRABORTY My dad's whole family is in Madras and I was born in America so we didn't have that big Indi...
MINDY KALING I don't care about having money. It's about being happy, man.
SKRILLEX It's a shame because we experienced probably the greatest thing - in art, in pop - we'll eve...
GARY KEMP I'm trying to escape the shackles of a pen and a pad. I've sat in sessions with Jay-Z where ...
NE-YO I'm a prize fighter. Titles don't pay bills. I fight for money. I'm making money. They&#...
BROCK LESNAR I don't know what any of my songs are about. I don't sit down to write about anything. They&...
LIAM GALLAGHER I don't think about whether it's gonna be a dance record or a ballad or anything when I'...
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FRED WILSON I don't think you mess around when you talk about tales of valor.
DAVID GREGORY I don't feel that I'm explaining the world or teaching people anything. And I'm not tryi...
STEVEN WRIGHT People try to make a big deal, like I don't want to play my old songs. That's not it. I don&...
BILLY CORGAN I don't think you ever stop giving. I really don't. I think it's an on-going process. An...
OPRAH WINFREY I don't sit here and dream because I don't care about the future. I wouldn't take nothin...
BROWNIE MCGHEE My father and I are friends and my mother and I don't speak. It's a bummer. I miss her.
JENNIFER ANISTON I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanis...
PATRICIA HIGHSMITH When you hit the big time, big money, big egos, people don't talk. You have no friends.
WILLARD SCOTT A lot of comedians get a bad rep once they have kids and that's all they talk about, and people ...
TIG NOTARO I love TV. I love being behind the scenes on a TV show but there's something about, I don't ...
SIMON COWELL It's great to talk about how good things are now. But we can't sit on our laurels and expect...
WENDY DAVIS The prison-industrial complex, poverty, and the school system has more effect on a young black male ...
JOHN LEGEND My only extravagance in life is my sailboat. I'm bonkers about that, but other than that, I don&...
FRANK GEHRY It's so funny because when I talk about fashion and menswear designers, it's really like a s...
ALBERT HAMMOND, JR. If it's old school friends that my parents know, then I can stay out till late. But if they don&...
TENA DESAE When I would see my friends with their kids, I was envious that you can use children to get out of j...
KEVIN NEALON I still have my school friends who are actually friends. It's nice that they don't think muc...
JACKIE EVANCHO You don't know that you'll ever have to talk about the skeleton in your closet.
MARK MCGWIRE Let's just cut a live record with three microphones in four days and talk about lizards and alie...
STURGILL SIMPSON I don't remember ever having writer's block. If I sit in there for four hours, I'll usua...
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BILLY BOB THORNTON I ain't just collab-ing with anybody. Because I don't care about making friends. I got enoug...
YOUNG THUG I don't have friends, and it's hard for me to make new friends. Right now, the people that a...
QUESTLOVE I really don't think in the past. I sit down with many friends at dinner, and they like to talk ...
DONALD BREN I don't recall having a gun. I really don't. I don't think I ever pulled a gun on anyone...
DARRELL ISSA I come from where Mike Tyson came from. I come from right across the street from Jay-Z. I didn't...
TRACY MORGAN I know actors come around and they always talk like that, but I don't do publicity if I don'...
BARBARA HERSHEY I've always been really private about my personal life. I don't talk about it.
AGYNESS DEYN If you asked my kids to describe me, they'd go through a whole list of words before even thinkin...
MICHAEL J. FOX I don't believe in sharing my money. If I go out and work my nuts off and make some money, I don...
GARY NUMAN I certainly don't walk around my home or being with my family and just using profane language al...
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POPPY Z. BRITE In France, for instance, one magazine writer was convinced that On The Road had been a huge influenc...
POPPY Z. BRITE No one has ever done anything too bad to be forgiven
R. Z. SHEPPARD At some point you have to start letting people save their own life.
POPPY Z. BRITE An able practitioner of glitz lit.
R. Z. SHEPPARD Physics depends on a universe infinitely centred on an equals sign.
MARK Z. DANIELEWSKI Then no matter where you are, in a crowded restaurant or on some desolate street or even in the comf...
MARK Z. DANIELEWSKI Not only do most people accept violence if it is perpetrated by legitimate authority, they also rega...
EDGAR Z. FRIEDENBERG An old man loved is winter with flowers.
EDGAR Z. FRIEDENBERG [Ken] Kesey practices what has come to be known as gonzo journalism. The reporter, often intoxicated...
R. Z. SHEPPARD His reserve of disdain appears endless. He could no sooner shut it off than a vampire could forgo hi...
R. Z. SHEPPARD The 'teenager' seems to have replaced the Communist as the appropriate target for public controversy...
EDGAR Z. FRIEDENBERG The short story is like an old friend who calls whenever he is in town. We are happy to hear from it...
R. Z. SHEPPARD It was like discovering that your innermost fires and terrors, the things you believed no one else c...
POPPY Z. BRITE In the end Navidson is left with one page and one match. For a long time he waits in darkness and co...
MARK Z. DANIELEWSKI The San Francisco Bay Area [is] the playpen of countercultures.
R. Z. SHEPPARD Two kisses in one kiss was all it took, a comfort, a warmth, perhaps temporary, perhaps false, but r...
MARK Z. DANIELEWSKI Youth always tries to fill the void, an old man learns to live with it.
MARK Z. DANIELEWSKI You could power America with renewables from a technical and economic standpoint. The biggest obstac...
MARK Z. JACOBSON ...life's big. If you can't fix it, give it a spin.
MARK Z. DANIELEWSKI And I can't think of a reason I'd ever use a pseudonym, as I wouldn't want to publish so...
POPPY Z. BRITE Because the enormous narcissism of their parents deprived Will and Tom of suitable role models, both...
MARK Z. DANIELEWSKI Let the night come. We are not afraid.
POPPY Z. BRITE The last dying days of summer, fall coming on fast. A cold night, the first of the season, a change ...
POPPY Z. BRITE Her smile, I'm sure, burnt Rome to the ground.
MARK Z. DANIELEWSKI You wouldn't believe how much harder it's getting for me to just leave my studio. It's really sad. I...
MARK Z. DANIELEWSKI Absolutely nothing visible to the eye provides a reason for or even evidence of those terrifying shi...
MARK Z. DANIELEWSKI Beautiful women are always drawn to men they think will keep them beautiful.
MARK Z. DANIELEWSKI Explanation is not half as strong as experience but experience is not half as strong as experience a...
MARK Z. DANIELEWSKI People frequently comment on the emptiness in one night stands, but emptiness here has always been j...
MARK Z. DANIELEWSKI Even the brightest magnesium flare can do little against such dark except blind the eyes of the one ...
MARK Z. DANIELEWSKI Of course there always will be darkness but I realize now something inhabits it. Historical or not. ...
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