Jay-Z (Shawn Corey Carter) Quotes
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I know that I was put on this planet to be an athlete.
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I completely get the drag thing.
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In the Great Depression, you bought something if you had the cash to buy it.
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Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is; we'll find it.
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I don't really care that much about eating. But I like impressing people with how good a cook I am. So I will cook. I'm an excellent cook. Not many people know that about me.
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Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.
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I left Beijing in 1987, shortly before my books were banned there, but have returned continually.
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I enjoy my life.
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How are we doing in the electronics field as opposed to, you know, we hear how advanced the Japanese are? Do you think we're still pretty competitive? Oh, yes.
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The Englishman never enjoys himself except for a noble purpose.
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I love sport and will do just about anything. Someone said they'd had a go at skiing off a mountain with a parachute, and that sounds great!
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Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and non-fiction. And even there, who can be sure?
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I'm not on the radio all day long. I'm not on TV.
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Weeks go by, and I don't talk to another living soul.
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I'm by no means condemning prescription medicine for mental health. I've seen it save a lot of people's lives.
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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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I hated my big hair. I always wore it straight.
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I never do anything to my hair. I just wash it. It tends to get dry, so I just try to put good, natural oils in it. I do a deep conditioning mask, which is quite good.
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The father, the mother and the teacher are the three primarily responsible for moulding the future of the country.
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It has a good script now, so we should have that one up and running next year for release in 2008.
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I believe that the average person can help a lot, not by giving material goods but by participating, by being part of the discussion, by being truly concerned about what is going on in the world.
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If I've been dating someone for, say, five months, and she cheats on me, I don't think it would be worth it. I'm not committed enough to the situation to give her a second chance.
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The combination of such characters, some, as the sacral ones, altogether peculiar among Reptiles, others borrowed, as it were, from groups now distinct from each other, and all manifested by creatures far surpassing in size the largest of existing reptiles, will, it is presumed, be deemed sufficient ground for establishing a distinct tribe or sub-order of Saurian Reptiles, for which I would propose the name of Dinosauria.
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Everyone needs a chance to evolve.
