O'Shea Jackson, Jr. Quotes
This entire cast, N.W.A, was an all-star group, and I really feel like people are going to look at 'Straight Outta Compton' years from now like this was an all-star cast.
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The doors between the old man today and the child are still open, wide open. I can stroll through my grandmother's house and know exactly where the pictures are, the furniture was, how it looked, the voice, the smells. I can move from my bed at night today to my childhood in less than a second.
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I would love to be in 'Dancing With the Stars.'
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I just enjoy life now. I just enjoy every morning I get to wake up.
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Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.
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As a child, I remember my dad would sometimes drive me into town with him to play pinball machines together. It's a bittersweet memory but also a favorite.
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I'm a very interior person. I love silence. I revel in it. I'm happy that way.
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Isolation is a self-defeating dream.
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I got to write most of everything I said.
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If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.
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Chicago still remains a Mecca of the Midwest - people from both coasts are kind of amazed how good life is in Chicago and what a good culture we've got. You can have a pretty wonderful artistic life and never leave Chicago.
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The confidence and respect shown by my countrymen in calling me to be the Chief Magistrate of a Republic holding a high rank among the nations of the earth have inspired me with feelings of the most profound gratitude.
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'Yela' represents hunger, life, light, fire, power. 'Wolf' speaks to my fighting spirit. The soul I put in my music.
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There was a long time where I was an 'artist' in quotes, who had no money. But I guess back then I also never had a girlfriend.
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It is amazing that it is my destiny to be the first Aussie to win the Masters.
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Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.
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In big science, the role of the individual scientist must be carefully preserved. So is the one of original ideas and of contributions.
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If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up.
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Democratic accountability means that governments must be popularly accepted, with citizens empowered to replace corrupt or incompetent rulers.
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It's a very organic process, and it has a specific order to it. I love to write, and once you've written, then you arrange. After the arrangement, you record it, and then you tour it.
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Also, right at that particular time in the music business, because of people like the Beatles, people began owning their own publishing. I'll just say this really quickly - they used to divide the money for the music that was written in two, just equal halves.
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There are a lot of people I dislike in the world. I mean, a lot. I don't follow any of them on Twitter.
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I usually play tough guys and stuff like that.
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The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance which envelope our future.
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This entire cast, N.W.A, was an all-star group, and I really feel like people are going to look at 'Straight Outta Compton' years from now like this was an all-star cast.
