Jay-Z (Shawn Corey Carter) Quotes

Little brothers ring fingers get cut up to show mothers they really got em.

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• My mother is the sort of woman who not only can raise a chicken and roast it to moist perfection but, as she proved to my openmouthed sister and me on a family holiday to Morocco when we were very young, can barter for one in a market, kill it, pluck it, and then cook it to perfection.

  

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• I think as long as I have a creative outlet, I'm happy.

  

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• It is hard to look away from the swirl of media that the untimely and tragic death of Heath Ledger has engendered, and the Internet has jacked the frenzy into overdrive.

  

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• It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.

  

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• I always like to have a buffer between me and journalism in general. Not just a reporter, but journalism.

  

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• I don't really like to talk about other people. I think people who have things going on in their lives, I think they have enough to deal with, they don't need, you know, Abigail Breslin weighing in on their lives.

  

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• One guy that I wish was here right now, Ted Williams, helped me so much, our long talks, not about hitting but about fishing, one of Ted's passions, and I wish he was here today to share this with me because I owe so much to Ted Williams.

  

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• Our deals and performance speak for themselves. And whoever doesn't feel comfortable investing with us will not.

  

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• When I was growing up, I actually went through, in New York City, blackouts when we had to close the windows and worry about air raids. I don't know whether or not those were realistic worries or not, but as a kid, when we all had to run around pulling down the drapes and turning the lights off; it was a very frightening experience.

  

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• I think entrepreneurship is a beautiful thing.

  

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• All kinds of gambling, from bingo to baccarat, are benign entertainment for most people, dangerously addictive to a few, and capable of breeding unwanted side effects for society.

  

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• Little brothers ring fingers get cut up to show mothers they really got em.

  

  Jay-Z
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