Jay-Z (Shawn Corey Carter) Quotes

Put me anywhere on God's green earth, I'll triple my worth. Motherf--. I, will, not, lose.

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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!

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Why
  • Girl
  • Cooking

• As an author, I really hate a reader like me. There's no loyalty.

  

  Gayle Forman
  • Hate
  • Author
  • Loyalty

• I feel like we all have our skeletons.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • Like
  • Feel
  • I Feel Like

• What I have is P.H. positive chronic myeloid leukemia, which is an aberration in your white blood cells.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Positive
  • Blood
  • White

• Age is just a number. If someone can perform at 45, who will stop that fellow from playing top-level cricket?

  

  Harbhajan Singh
  • Age
  • Stop
  • Someone

• There is no better high than discovery.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • High
  • Better
  • Discovery

• 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.

  

  Edie Falco
  • Life
  • Time
  • Work

• 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.

  

  Vijender Singh
  • Breakfast
  • Bread
  • Diet

• 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.

  

  Yusef Komunyakaa
  • Hope
  • Black
  • See

• One must act in painting as in life, directly.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Life
  • Painting
  • Act

• Sharks are being driven to extinction because people want to eat their fins and their flesh.

  

  Barbara Block
  • People
  • Want
  • Sharks

• Most people want security in this world, not liberty.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • People
  • World
  • Security

• I don't regret the passing of time. I try to live in the present, which should mean my life's full.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Life
  • Time
  • Live

• The world is my workshop. It is not my home.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • World
  • Home
  • Workshop

• 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.

  

  Taylor Hanson Hanson
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• 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.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Time
  • Trust
  • Deep

• 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.

  

  Hannah Murray
  • People
  • Good
  • Fun

• The journey matters as much as the goal.

  

  Kalpana Chawla
  • Goal
  • Journey
  • Matters

• I found that the quality of TV material that came to me was so great and was just often better than the film material I got. And when I find a good movie that I really like, I jump on it because it's exciting to do.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Good
  • Great
  • Movie

• There is something about raising a child that helps to sharpen one’s sense of what is real.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Real

• We are told by media - books, television, reality shows - that heartbreak is this terrible thing and yet we should seek it. We're told that heartbreak is all about love and we should just go after that high over and over again. We are told it is healthy to be addicted to this kind of behavior and the highs associated with love. But, that's not all what heartbreak is.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • Book
  • Reality
  • Kind

• Thus again the Netherlands, for the first time since the fall of Rome, were united under one crown imperial. They had already been once united, in their slavery to Rome.

  

  John Lothrop Motley
  • Time
  • Fall
  • Slavery

• The frustration for a parent is that you might be available all the time, but the kid may approach you only about 10% of the time.

  

  Chris Crutcher
  • Time
  • May
  • Frustration

• Put me anywhere on God's green earth, I'll triple my worth. Motherf--. I, will, not, lose.

  

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