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HUGH LAURIE I'd had a relationship with a French girl, a Japanese girl, an American girl, a Filippina and sh... DAVID THEWLIS I had been very impressed with the voiceover of 'Apocalypse Now,' with Martin Sheen's vo... RIDLEY SCOTT I did make a solo album in my house when I was there. And because I was just afraid of flying, I wou... CHRISTINE MCVIE I didn't have an exhibition anywhere until I was 30. My first exhibition was at 30, and then for... TRACEY EMIN I have to say that when I first started singing, I didn't think it was a very noble profession. ... LESLEY GORE I used to walk to the Washington Monument from North L Street Northwest. And I was so hungry at time... SUGAR RAY LEONARD I used to ride motorbikes and drive cars like everything was a racetrack; it was ridiculous. It wasn... ORLANDO BLOOM I was a Skynyrd fan all along. But I was also the brother of the lead singer who passed on. I just d... 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Your ... JAY No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent. JOHN JAY Rap for me is like making movies, telling stories, and getting the emotions of the songs through in ... JAY-Z My mom had early rap records, like Jimmy Spicer. In the middle of the records was a turntable and a ... JAY-Z When I listen to Radio 1 and hear five different tracks in a row using old disco samples, well that&... JAY KAY I'm a mirror. If you're cool with me, I'm cool with you, and the exchange starts. What y... JAY-Z Successful people have a bigger fear of failure than people who've never done anything because i... JAY-Z I collect art, and I drink wine... things that I like that I had never been exposed to. But I never ... JAY-Z Rosa Parks sat so Martin Luther King could walk. Martin Luther King walked so Obama could run. Obama... JAY-Z One of the reasons inequality gets so deep in this country is that everyone wants to be rich. That... JAY-Z I don't sit around with my friends and talk about money, ever. On a record, that's different... JAY-Z All my businesses are part of the culture, so I have to stay true to whatever I'm feeling at the... JAY-Z It's hilarious a lot of times. You have a conversation with someone, and he's like, 'You... JAY-Z I'm far from being god, but I work god damn hard. JAY-Z The burden of poverty isn't just that you don't always have the things you need, it's th... JAY-Z I treat people based on who they really are, not the name. Everyone has to be respectful and be a hu... JAY-Z I love what I do, and when you love what you do, you want to be the best at it. JAY-Z Your job is to inspire people from your neighborhood to get out. JAY-Z I've never looked at myself and said that I need to be a certain way to be around a certain sort... JAY-Z The silencing of the rainforests is a double deforestation, not only of trees but a deforestation of... JAY GRIFFITHS Belief in oneself and knowing who you are, I mean, that's the foundation for everything great. JAY-Z Excellence is being able to perform at a high level over and over again. You can hit a half-court sh... JAY-Z Clearly, many branches of science need an exquisite precision of timekeeping and the infinitesimal d... JAY GRIFFITHS It was a very intense and stressful situation. There was playing in the Johnny-pump (an opened fire ... JAY-Z We are a nation of immigrants, a quilt of many colors, and we've managed over more than two cent... JAY PARINI I grew up in Marcy Projects in Brooklyn, and my mom and pop had an extensive record collection, so M... JAY-Z The U.S. invaded Vietnam because many in our government - Lyndon Johnson's best and brightest - ... JAY PARINI You get to a point in your career, I think, it's not even about money. You're secure. You wa... JAY CUTLER We had an old Victrola with the old bulldog they used to have there. The horn would come out. JAY MCSHANN