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Don't ever go with the flow. Be the flow.
Jay-Z
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Jay-Z
Age: 54
Born: 1969
Born: December 4
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It was a very intense and stressful situation. There was playing in the Johnny-pump (an opened fire hydrant) and the ice-cream man coming around and all of these games that we'd play, and suddenly it would turn just violent and there would be shootings at 12 in the afternoon on any given day.
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Remind yourself. Nobody built like you, you design yourself.
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I use a lot of double meanings. I hide 'em like Easter eggs.
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I got this black chick, she don't know how to act Always talkin' out her neck, makin' her fingers snap She like, Listen Jigga Man, I don't care if you rap You better - R-E-S-P-E-C-T me
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Everybody look at you strange, say you changed Like you work that hard to stay the same.
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A poet's mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level.
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If your dad died before you were born, yeah, it hurts — but it’s not like you had a connection with something that was real. Not to say it’s any better — but to have that connection and then have it ripped away was, like, the worst. My dad was such a good dad that when he left, he left a huge scar. He was my superhero.
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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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I'm not a businessman, I'm a business, man!
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You could name practically any problem in the hood and there'd be a rap song for you.
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It's hilarious a lot of times. You have a conversation with someone, and he's like, 'You speak so well!' I'm like, 'What do you mean? Do you understand that's an insult?
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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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I'm not concerned with noise because I'm playing the long game.
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