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 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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Let a man sow a field or plant a farm never so well, yet he cannot foretell who will gather in the fruits; another may build him a house of fairest proportion, yet he knows not who will inhabit it.
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I have a few uniforms – depending on whether I'm going to a college campus or meeting a head of state. But clean and easy works best for me.
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It's not that I am not emotional, but I am extremely secure and curb it, as I am afraid to let go and be broken. So, I have cultivated myself to be detached in life, specially where movies are concerned.
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I wanted to be able to do things at my own pace, make mistakes and nobody would care.
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I think people are people and if their feelings are real and truthful, they can connect.
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The death tax robs parents of the opportunity to pass something along to their children, and it is responsible for destroying a lot of family-owned businesses.
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Compassion is the basis of morality.
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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
