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Jay Z Inspirational Quotes (132)

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You learn more in failure than you ever do in success
Jay-Z
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Everybody look at you strange, say you changed Like you work that hard to stay the same.
Jay-Z
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Hip-hop gave a generation a common ground that didn't require either race to lose anything everyone gained.
Jay-Z
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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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There are a couple of projects that are sort of on the plate I haven't closed any of them yet. I'm trying to figure out which one is going to be the best one for me.
Jay Hernandez
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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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My tears is tatted, my rag in my pocket / Im just looking for love, I know somebody got it
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[Banning marriage equality is] discrimination, plain and simple. It's really not about votes. It's about people. I think it's the right thing to do as a human being.
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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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All these ways we classify things as R&B and hip-hop and rock... It's bullshit. It's all music. If you put yourself in that box, then you won't be able to hear that it's all music at its soul.
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In trouble waters I had to learn how to float
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When I listen to great music, the first thing I wonder is what people were saying when this came out of the speakers in the studio. I want to know what happened when they played it and said, This is the one!
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I think Lil Wayne is extremely talented. I think he's one of the most talented ones out there.
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But in film you always watch situations or stories that you really have no relation to. A lot of times just because there's no personal connection doesn't mean you can't connect with the film or the characters in the film.
Jay Hernandez
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They say a midget standing on a giant's shoulders can see much further than the giant. So I got the whole rap world on my shoulders, they trying to see further than I am.
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I got 99 Problems but Mitt ain't one.
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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.
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You can pay for school, but you can't buy class
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The average rap life is two or three albums. You're lucky to get to your second album in rap!
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I smoked some weed, and that's how I finished 'Izzo.'
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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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Growing up, politics never trickled down to the areas we come from. But people from Obama's camp, and Obama himself, reached out to me and asked for my help on the campaign. We've sat and had dinner, and we've spoken on the phone. He's a very sharp guy. Very charming. Very cool.
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Guys don't get romantically involved. What do they get? Invold, period.
Jayne Ann Krentz
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Everyone needs a chance to evolve.
Jay-Z
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