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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The ideal American type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, individualist, anti-conformist, and this is the type that is in the process of disappearing. In reality there are few left.
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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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There can be a lot of mind games going on between the players. When you're about to serve, people will try to throw you off your rhythm by taking a walk. If you're tired, you can't show that at all to an opponent.
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Say there are three identical-looking pizza joints on a street. Two of those will always be empty. The third will have a line of people patiently waiting, checking their phones. There's always one place that's the place. That's how it works.
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I don't care what you have done before or what you are capable of: if you come up against a guy like me, you are in trouble.
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I think from an early age I was aware of how a camera can tell a story, how a movie camera can affect how the narrative is told.
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We both came from families in which parents got married, had children and the whole thing. So we were not the kind of people to live together permanently.
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Maybe, just maybe, two broken people could manage to create something whole.
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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
