Jay-Z Quotes - Page 3

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• As kids we didn't complain about being poor; we talked about how rich we were going to be and made moves to get the lifestyle we aspired to by any means we could. And as soon as we had a little money, we were eager to show it.

  Jay-Z

  Moving, Mean, Kids

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• Life is for living, not living uptight, see ya somewhere up in the sky.

  Jay-Z

  Sky, Uptight, Life Is

  Song: Young Forever, Album: The Blueprint 3, 2009

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• Everyone needs a chance to evolve.

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  Needs, Chance, Evolve

  Jay-Z (2010). “Decoded (Enhanced Edition)”, p.183, Random House Group

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• Difficult takes a day
  Impossible takes a week
  I do this in my sleep

  Jay-Z

  Sleep, Hip Hop, Impossible

  Song: Diamonds From Sierra Leone

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• We change people through conversation, not through censorship.

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  People, Censorship, Conversation

  Jay-Z (2010). “Decoded (Enhanced Edition)”, p.323, Random House Group

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• I'm not afraid of dying I'm afraid of not trying

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  Success, Young Entrepreneurs, Dying

  Jay-Z (2010). “Decoded (Enhanced Edition)”, p.298, Random House Group

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• No matter where you go, you are what you are playa.

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  Matter, Playas

  Jay-Z (2010). “Decoded (Enhanced Edition)”, p.46, Random House Group

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• I will not lose, for even in defeat/There's a valuable lesson learned, so it evens up for me

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  Dope, Lesson Learned, Lessons

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• Treat my first like my last and the last like my first and my thirst is the same as- when I came.

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  Lasts, Firsts, Treats

  Jay-Z (2010). “Decoded (Enhanced Edition)”, p.164, Random House Group

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• Jealousy’s a weak emotion.

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  Hustle, Emotion, Weak

  Song: Some People Hate

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• Far from a Harvard student, just had the balls to do it

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  Motivational, Hip Hop, Insightful

  Song: What More Can I Say?, Album: The Black Album

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• My thing is related to who I am as a person. The clothes are an extension of me. The music is an extension of me. All my businesses are part of the culture, so I have to stay true to whatever I'm feeling at the time, whatever direction I'm heading in. And hopefully, everyone follows.

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  Who I Am, Clothes, Feelings

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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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  Two, Soul, Way

  Jay-Z (2010). “Decoded (Enhanced Edition)”, p.301, Random House Group

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• We were kids without fathers, so we found our fathers on wax and on the streets and in history, and in a way, that was a gift. We got to pick and choose the ancestors who would inspire the world we were going to make for ourselves.

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  Father, Kids, Inspire

  Jay-Z (2010). “Decoded (Enhanced Edition)”, p.271, Random House Group

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• Their gunnin' for me, want to see me fall, you know my story, been through it all, times I felt like dyin', but I ain't cryin', what didn't kill me, makes me strong as iron.

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  Strength, Strong, Fall

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• Successful people have a bigger fear of failure than people who've never done anything because if you haven't been successful, then you don't know how it feels to lose it all.

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  Successful, People, Done

  Interview with Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 11, 2010.

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• Everything evens up, you just wait, Even a garbage can gets a steak, You ain't even a garbage can, you have faith!

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  Garbage Cans, Waiting, Have Faith

  Song: Guns and Roses

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• It's always been most important for me to figure out "my space" rather than trying to check out what everyone else is up to, minute by minute. Technology is making it easier to connect to other people, but maybe harder to keep connected to yourself-- and that's essential for any artist, I think.

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  Artist, Technology, Thinking

  Jay-Z (2010). “Decoded (Enhanced Edition)”, p.299, Random House Group

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• Now success was like lust, she's good to the touch,
  She's good for the moment, but she's never enough

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  Hip Hop, Lust, Moments

  Jay Z (2010). “Decoded”, p.320, Random House

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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.

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  Kings, Thinking, Trying

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• Screamin' 'Carpe Diem!' until I'm a Dead Poet.

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  Rap, Carpe Diem, Hip Hop

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• I ain't lookin' at you dudes -I'm lookin' past you.

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  Past

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• You ain't gotta go to church to find your God.

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  Church

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• Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be
  And so I put this on my life
  Nobody or nothing will ever come between us
  And I promise I'll give my life

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  Song, Giving, Promise

  Song: 03′ Bonnie & Clyde

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• When you're growing up, your dad is your superhero. Once you've let yourself fall that in love with someone, once you put him on such a high pedestal and he lets you down, you never want to experience that pain again.

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  Growing Up, Pain, Dad

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. October 2009.

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