Jay-Z (Shawn Corey Carter) Quotes
Nine to five is how ya survive, I ain't trying to survive I'm trying to live it to the limit and love it alive
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To face deflation, you have to have people accepting it and not reacting to it.
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My interior is very, very dense - Proustian-looking, sort of Henry James. The walls are covered in pictures, and I transformed the big drawing room into a library lined with books.
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You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.
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I loved getting to Chagrin Falls, being by the falls; what a cute place it is.
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You have to find out how to become the character.
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Nearly all edible seaweeds - or 'sea vegetables,' as they ought technically to be called - belong to one of three broad groups: green, red and brown algae.
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I am not a fan of books.
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Yes, my parents are strict about me having a childhood. I go ice skating and sledding, and swimming in the summer.
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Let us unite the world through the compassion for our children.
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I run a solid 4-6 miles at a time, and over the last year two years I've gotten really into SoulCycle. It's sort of an evolved form of spinning.
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Near the end of my career, I saw things that didn't make too much sense to me when I was a kid.
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In Valdosta, Ga., during a mini-tour event, a player named James Black bet me $20 he could put five golf balls in his mouth and then close his mouth all the way. I tried it but could get only two in there.
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I'm just so grateful for the 10 years that I had in Sri Lanka when it was in the middle of a war and I was getting shot at, because now and again I remember glimpses of those times, and I just go, 'Wow, I'll never, ever see that again in my life. And I'm never gonna feel that, and I'm never gonna feel for a human being like that.'
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I love boliche, roasted pig, and black beans and rice. When I need a quick fix, I head to Cafe Cortadito on Avenue B and 3rd here in New York City.
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I'm almost completely without family and it's a very odd feeling in life. I have no children.
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I never thought I would write a memoir at age 40... but I did have this unique place in history.
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The sci-fi movies I grew up with, the metaphor was very rich, and they used to really mean something: David Cronenberg's films, or John Carpenter's films, or the Phil Kaufman and Don Segel versions of 'Invasion Of The Body Snatchers,' or George Romero's early zombie films.
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The target audience goes back to conception. That means pre-natal care, safe delivery, post-natal screening, and the ordinary stuff you do in pediatrics.
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Dead people don't really die. They live on within you.
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There are people who are genetically made to start record labels, and I'm not one of those people. People just have it in their blood and are good at it. Corey Rusk from Touch and Go and Ian MacKaye. These are people who have made their own labels.
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I love writing music, but it seems I'm always writing words, so I don't get much time to do it.
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I just wanted to make melodies. I started trying to do my own thing and let the melodies make the genre themselves.
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Martin guitars have now brought out, you know, on a more traditional level, the Stephen Stills' model of Martin guitars. It's beautiful. I just went inside. I bought one immediately.
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Nine to five is how ya survive, I ain't trying to survive I'm trying to live it to the limit and love it alive
