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.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • People
  • You
  • Face

• 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.

  

  Hamish Bowles
  • Drawing
  • Library
  • Walls

• You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.

  

  Ian Fleming
  • Live
  • Death
  • Look

• I loved getting to Chagrin Falls, being by the falls; what a cute place it is.

  

  Ed Asner
  • Place
  • Loved
  • Cute

• You have to find out how to become the character.

  

  Kara Hayward
  • Character
  • You
  • Find

• 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.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Red
  • Sea
  • Green

• I am not a fan of books.

  

  Kanye West
  • Books
  • Fan

• Yes, my parents are strict about me having a childhood. I go ice skating and sledding, and swimming in the summer.

  

  Jackie Evancho
  • Parents
  • Childhood
  • Summer

• Let us unite the world through the compassion for our children.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • World
  • Children
  • Compassion

• 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.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • Time
  • Year
  • Run

• Near the end of my career, I saw things that didn't make too much sense to me when I was a kid.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Career
  • End
  • Sense

• 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.

  

  Gary McCord
  • Black
  • Me
  • Player

• 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.'

  

  M.I.A.
  • Life
  • Remember
  • War

• 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.

  

  Narciso Rodriguez
  • Head
  • Fix
  • Quick

• I'm almost completely without family and it's a very odd feeling in life. I have no children.

  

  Walter Mosley
  • Life
  • Children
  • Family

• I never thought I would write a memoir at age 40... but I did have this unique place in history.

  

  Dana Perino
  • History
  • Age
  • Thought

• 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.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Up
  • Body
  • Movies

• 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.

  

  C. Everett Koop
  • You
  • Care
  • Safe

• When law and duty are one, united by religion, you never become fully conscious, fully aware of yourself. You are always a little less than an individual.

  

  Frank Herbert
  • Law

• I don't know what story y'all trying to get out of me. I don't know what image y'all trying to portray of me. But it don't matter what y'all think, what y'all say about me because when I go home at night, the same people that I look in the face - my family that I love, that's all that really matter to me.

  

  Marshawn Lynch
  • People
  • Trying
  • Family

• It's a little bit odd. The first time you do the play, you kind of throw yourself into it, trying to get the most out of all the individual moments. Then, a few hours later, you're still there, wondering what you could possibly do differently than what you just did a couple hours ago.

  

  Michael Shannon
  • Trying
  • Kind
  • Couple

• They had the music being piped right out on the street. I'd be three or four blocks from there and I couldn't get there fast enough because I'd hear old Joe holler them words.

  

  Jay McShann
  • Music
  • Words

• I'm very fussy. I'm very hard to please.

  

  Jason Statham

• 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

  

  Jay-Z
  • Live
  • Trying
  • Limits