Jay-Z Quotes
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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'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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I'd rather die enormous than live dormant.
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You can pay for school, but you can't buy class
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I like a girl who spend a little cash for her shoes.
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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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This is why we shouldn't be afraid. There are two possibilities: One is that there's more to life than the physical life, that our souls "will find an even higher place to dwell" when this life is over. If that's true, there's no reason to fear failure or death. The other possibility is that this life is all there is. And if that's true, then we have to really live it - we have to take it for everything it has and "die enormous" instead of "living dormant," as I said way back on "Can I Live." Either way, fear is a waste of time.
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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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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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If you want the old me, go buy my old albums.
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I'm not a businessman, I'm a business, man!
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Got some, dirt on my shoulder, could you brush it off for me?
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How could I be out there and not do anything?
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Ain't nothin' wrong with the aim, just gotta change the target.
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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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Without the work, the magic won’t come.
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You ain't gotta go to church to find your God.
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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.
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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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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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And now we're lethal, infected with D'Evils
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I came, I saw, I conquered From record sales to sold out concerts.
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I'm hungry for knowledge. The whole thing is to learn every day, to get brighter and brighter. That's what this world is about. You look at someone like Gandhi, and he glowed. Martin Luther King glowed. Muhammad Ali glows. I think that's from being bright all the time, and trying to be brighter.