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

• A big misconception is that a black hole is made of matter that has just been compacted to a very small size. That's not true. A black hole is made from warped space and time.

  

  Kip Thorne
  • Time
  • True
  • Black

• I've always believed that - it's stupid, but I always use this - the pressure makes the diamonds. I really do believe that. The more pressure I'm put under, the more, it seems, I thrive. The more you give me to do and the more you give me to accomplish, the more I can get done for you.

  

  Ryan Guzman
  • Believe
  • Stupid
  • Accomplish

• The nation's government has just handed me the bill that grants us our civil rights. I am receiving it before you, certain that I am accepting this on behalf of all Argentinean women, and I can feel my hands tremble with joy as they grasp the laurel proclaiming victory.

  

  Evita Peron
  • Government
  • Hands
  • Victory

• Prejudice and passion and suspicion are more dangerous than the incitement of self-interest or the most stubborn adherence to real differences of opinion regarding rights.

  

  Elihu Root
  • Real
  • Passion
  • Opinion

• That's a real secret. You can trust God. I feel I love the Lord with all of my heart, and he will not put more on me than I can bear. And so I always say, 'Lord, I trust you with me.' So I figure, anything that happens in my life, I must be able to bear it, or he wouldn't allow it to happen.

  

  Tammy Faye Bakker
  • Life
  • God
  • Real

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

  

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