Jay-Z (Shawn Corey Carter) Quotes
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EVOO is extra-virgin olive oil. I first coined 'EVOO' on my cooking show because saying 'extra virgin olive oil' over and over was wordy, and I'm an impatient girl - that's why I make 30-minute meals!
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As an author, I really hate a reader like me. There's no loyalty.
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I feel like we all have our skeletons.
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What I have is P.H. positive chronic myeloid leukemia, which is an aberration in your white blood cells.
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Age is just a number. If someone can perform at 45, who will stop that fellow from playing top-level cricket?
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There is no better high than discovery.
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I think there was a time when I considered myself a work addict, but that's no longer accurate. My life has changed so dramatically over the last number of years, especially having a family now. My priorities have shifted.
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I have a carbohydrate and protein-rich diet. For breakfast, I typically have two slices of bread with butter or jam, four to five eggs - boiled or fried - a few bananas and a glass of milk.
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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One must act in painting as in life, directly.
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Sharks are being driven to extinction because people want to eat their fins and their flesh.
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Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
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I don't regret the passing of time. I try to live in the present, which should mean my life's full.
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The world is my workshop. It is not my home.
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There's always a spattering of people who see Hanson who were influenced by classic '60's and '70's rock and roll. In a lot of ways, we're sort of the anatomy of a '70's rock band if you examine what we do: white guys who grew up listening to soul music from the '50's and '60's.
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One is that you have to take time, lots of time, to let an idea grow from within. The second is that when you sign on to something, there will be issues of trust, deep trust, the way the members of a string quartet have to trust one another.
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You can tell when people think they're a little bit special, and it's quite fun to laugh at them, and I think it's good to laugh at them, because then you can deflate their egos a bit.
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The journey matters as much as the goal.
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There are few things quite so boring as being religious, but there is nothing quite so exciting as being a Christian!
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It's easier to make a reporter into an economist than an economist into a reporter.
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I actually don't have a single regret, professionally or domestically. I planned it that way.
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The Role of Deliberate Practice in the Acquisition of Expert Performance”: “The differences between expert performers and normal adults are not immutable, that is, due to genetically prescribed talent. Instead, these differences reflect a life-long period of deliberate effort to improve performance.
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Put me anywhere on God's green earth, I'll triple my worth. Motherf--. I, will, not, lose.
