Ice T Quotes
Because I first made my name as a rapper claiming South Central L.A., people often assume I'm strictly a West Coast cat. But my family was actually from back East. I was born in Newark, New Jersey, and grew up in Summit, an upscale town in north Jersey.
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There are a lot of things that I have not shared that I will never share. I do have a personal private life.
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Mr. Speaker, from hurricanes and floods in Latin America to earthquakes in Asia, natural disasters are increasingly becoming a regular feature of life for large numbers of people around the globe.
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Now is the only thing that exists.
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The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.
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There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.
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The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.
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Smart people are a dime a dozen. What matters is the ability to think different... to think out of the box.
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Be who you are and be that well.
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Anytime I'm involved with anything that's well-received, it's a surprise to me.
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All working parents should have paid family leave. That's one of many reasons I'm working to elect Hillary Clinton. She has a plan to guarantee workers - men and women - up to 12 weeks of paid family leave to care for a new child or a seriously ill family member.
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I don't believe in writer's block.
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
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When this space walk will be completed, then the arm will be fully operational and ready for the next activity that will be pretty much the testing, the first flight testing of the space station arm.
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Why not a space flower? Why do we always expect metal ships?
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Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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People tried to make me something that I wasn't at the beginning of my career.
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It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.
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Animal vision - including human vision - is so biased toward movement that we don't technically see stationary objects at all.
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It's a tough life being a pop star. You know, at the end of the day when you've paid all the bills and put the kids through college and that, you know, there's only enough left for a small island off the South Pacific.
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'Livin' la Vida Loca' is not Latin music. It does not represent Latin music.
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It is all, as usual, paradox. I have to use what intellect I have in order to write books, but I write the kind of books I do in order that I may try to set down glimpses of things that are on the other side of the intellect. We do not go around and discard the intellect, but we must go through and beyond it.
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Well, I met Frank Sinatra and Bob Dylan in the space of 15 minutes. Frank Sinatra kissed me on the lips. He kissed me on the lips. And then he gave me a filterless cigarette. And then I met Bob Dylan. I came off all lightheaded and had to go sit on his dressing-room steps.
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The United States is not a nation of black and white people. Any fool can see that white people are not really white, and that black people are not black.
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Because I first made my name as a rapper claiming South Central L.A., people often assume I'm strictly a West Coast cat. But my family was actually from back East. I was born in Newark, New Jersey, and grew up in Summit, an upscale town in north Jersey.
