Jay-Z Quotes
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Leave a mark they can't erase, neither space nor time.
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You can pay for school, but you can't buy class
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I'd rather die enormous than live dormant.
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I like a girl who spend a little cash for her shoes.
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I'm a person that works off of music. I let the music dictate the direction.
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I'm not a businessman, I'm a business, man!
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I would run into the corner store, the bodega, and just grab a paper bag or buy juice - anything just to get a paper bag. And I'd write the words on the paper bag and stuff these ideas in my pocket until I got back. Then I would transfer them into the notebook.
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I've never looked at myself and said that I need to be a certain way to be around a certain sort of people. I've always wanted to stay true to myself, and I've managed to do that. People have to accept that.
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You ain't gotta go to church to find your God.
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I came, I saw, I conquered From record sales to sold out concerts.
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Without the work, the magic won’t come.
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How could I be out there and not do anything?
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The burden of poverty isn't just that you don't always have the things you need, it's the feeling of being embarrassed every day of your life, and you'd do anything to lift that burden.
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If you want the old me, go buy my old albums.
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Nine to five is how ya survive, I ain't trying to survive I'm trying to live it to the limit and love it alive
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I thought I would be more inspired to have all these new feelings to talk about, but I really just want to hang out with my daughter.
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You shared one of the most intimate things that ever happened to you - falling in love with someone who wasn't brave enough to love you back. Your relieving yourself of your 'secret' is as much about wanting to honestly connect as it is about exhibition. We are all made better by your decision to share publicly.
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Got some, dirt on my shoulder, could you brush it off for me?
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And now we're lethal, infected with D'Evils
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Ain't nothin' wrong with the aim, just gotta change the target.
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I keep my enemies close/ I give 'em enough rope/ They put themselves in the air/ I just kick away the chair.
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New York has a thousand universes in it that don't always connect but we do all walk the same streets, hear the same sirens, ride the same subways, see the same headlines in the Post, read the same writings on the walls. That shared landscape gets inside of all of us and, in some small way, unites us, makes us think we know each other even when we don't.
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No one's walking around here perfect. Everyone's gonna make mistakes. That's part of how you learn.
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Don't make decisions based on the fear.