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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Israel reoccupied the cities of the West Bank by a unilateral action, and reestablished the civil and military occupation by a unilateral action, and it is the one that determines whether or not a Palestinian citizen has the right to reside in any part of the Palestinian Territory.
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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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The sun is always shining someplace.
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It's important to be conscious of the world we live in. We get one chance, as far as I'm concerned, but we all leave an echo. It's important that our echo resonates positively on the planet and its inhabitants after we're gone.
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There is no need to smear my name or to defame my character for the sake of news.
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Splitting the atom is like trying to shoot a gnat in the Albert Hall at night and using ten million rounds of ammunition on the off chance of getting it. That should convince you that the atom will always be a sink of energy and never a reservoir of energy.
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Everyone needs a chance to evolve.
