Jay-Z (Shawn Corey Carter) Quotes
Never prayed to God, I prayed to Gotti, that's right it's wicked, that's life I live it. Ain't askin' for forgiveness for my sins. I gotta get my soul right, I gotta get these Devils out my life. Lord forgive him, He got them dark forces in. connected to the high power. 666. I can introduce you to evil.
 
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	Money is in some respects life's fire: it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master.   
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	I want to love life.   
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	Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.   
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	I have a really beautiful life right now, so there is no reason to be hostile. I'm a husband, a father and a man who tries to do the right thing in life and in my work.   
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	I love C-3PO; I love the girl from 'Ex Machina' - these kind of robots that have so much soul that you feel for them.   
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	I've never really lived a conventional life, so I think it's quite foolish for me or anyone else to start thinking that I am going to start making conventional choices.   
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	I have vertigo. Vertigo makes it feel like the floor is pitching up and down. Things seem to be spinning. It's like standing on the deck of a ship in really high seas.   
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	I want to do work that has a message and casts a light over an area that's dark. But I'm fun and jovial, too.   
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	They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, 'Can he name a kitten?'   
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	I'm being mocked because I don't live up to a socially determined view of what other people think a person should look like.   
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	I think we raised about 20,000 pounds. There was a live performance thing so we thought we'd donate the equipment for an online charity in Britain. I hated to part with my guitar, but it was for such a great cause.   
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	If the City Council wants to hold the police accountable, it has the subpoena power and oversight responsibility to do so. They don't have the courage to do it.   
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	I played a character in 'Ransom' who was as evil as they come.   
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	Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.   
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	Second, we also got a more authentic liturgy of the people of God, in the vernacular language.   
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	Life is one long jubilee.   
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	I feel like we have to keep our eyes on the road. Being nostalgic is like taking an offramp and getting a sandwich - and then you get back on the highway. I don't want to be spending the rest of my life at the gas station.   
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	Shooting at Coco Chanel's apartment was an unexpectedly absorbing experience. The essence of Chanel is firmly rooted there in all of her possessions, and I truly believe that her spirit and soul still inhabit the second floor.   
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	It's going to be years and years before most people realize how greatly he contributed to American music.   
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	I never wanted to be famous. I always wanted to take famous photographs.   
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	I'm a singer who thinks like a rapper.   
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	The time has passed for our sensations in painting to be whispered. We wish them in the future to sing and re-echo upon our canvasses in deafening and triumphant flourishes.   
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	Never prayed to God, I prayed to Gotti, that's right it's wicked, that's life I live it. Ain't askin' for forgiveness for my sins. I gotta get my soul right, I gotta get these Devils out my life. Lord forgive him, He got them dark forces in. connected to the high power. 666. I can introduce you to evil.   
 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					