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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The thing I love about being a novelist is that with each project, you invent a new world. You approach it with a different set of aesthetic and structural ideas, and you grapple with a different series of problems in figuring out how to tell the story. And yet there are certain concerns that stay constant.
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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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Happiness consists not in having, but of being, not of possessing, but of enjoying. It is the warm glow of a heart at peace with itself.
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He knows that for all the undeserved bounty of his life, she will always be there, at the edge of his vision, to remind him of all the things he can never have.
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I have this disease-like need to try to create something new. When you're kind of being chased, and everything you do goes so well, you develop this sickness and a sense of need to constantly do something different.
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We can't expect everybody to be there for us, all at once. So it's a lucky thing that really, all you need is someone.
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If you go back to all my albums, they're all confessional.
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Everyone needs a chance to evolve.
