Ice Cube (O'Shea Jackson Sr.) Quotes

South Central is just who I am.

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• My views on everything from welfare to a balanced budget to affirmative action can be traced to what Buddy and Helen Watts taught me as a young boy growing up poor but proud in Eufaula.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Action

• I think, doing a first film, at some point you get halfway through, and you wonder, 'Is this is good enough to define who I am for the coming decade?'

  

  Sam Jaeger
  • Film
  • Wonder
  • Enough

• I am not a fitness freak, but I do my regular exercises.

  

  Uday Kiran
  • Fitness
  • Freak
  • Exercises

• When I'm on stage, I know exactly where I am. It's not an ego thing or anything like that, but I am more in my body and aware of myself and aware of what I'm doing, and I feel more from that, from sharing the music.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Music
  • Stage
  • Ego

• I am especially fascinated with mermaids, and they are always coming out in pirate stories.

  

  Yasmine Al Masri
  • Pirate
  • Especially
  • Mermaids

• I am a hopeless romantic and I love to spoil my girlfriends.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Love
  • Romantic
  • For Him

• I am just like Dr. Armaan - fun-loving, flirtatious, and tension-free. I am serious about my work, but apart from that, I am always playing pranks on people. As a viewer, I relate more to 'Dil Mill Gayye.'

  

  Karan Singh Grover
  • People
  • Work
  • Fun

• I think I'd say that my whole body of work is a reflection of who I am, but not any one specific thing.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Work
  • Reflection

• I can walk into a bookstore and hand over my credit card and they don't know who the hell I am. Maybe that says something about bookstore clerks.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Bookstore
  • Clerks
  • Credit Card

• I am a being of Heaven and Earth, of thunder and lightning, of rain and wind, of the galaxies.

  

  Eden Ahbez
  • Earth
  • Heaven
  • Wind

• I am a worrier. I worry about the state of our country, of the world, of our species. Every day seems to deliver a new nail to hammer into our collective coffin.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • World
  • Country
  • Species

• I am a fashion designer, so I guess that makes me an overpacker.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Fashion
  • Designer
  • Overpacker

• I'm just a kid from Bronx who got lucky.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • Lucky
  • Kid
  • Just

• I'm not making films just to be bold.

  

  Yash Chopra
  • Just
  • Bold
  • Making

• I'm not saying that in order to be a great jazz musician you have to be a great classical pianist first. But I am saying that it makes things easier when you can get around the instrument, and you have some idea of how to approach the various hurdles.

  

  Aaron Diehl
  • Musician
  • Jazz
  • Instrument

• I am the commander in chief of the United States armed forces, and Iraq is gonna have to ultimately provide for its own security.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Security
  • United States
  • Iraq

• I am concerned if 25 percent of Americans think that President Obama is a Muslim. I mean, it's obviously a lack of knowledge. But also, it's for the Muslims as well, you know, because a small numbers of Muslims have really painted a very negative image of Islam.

  

  Najib Razak
  • Knowledge
  • Image
  • Islam

• I think of the past and the future as well as the present to determine where I am, and I move on while thinking of these things.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • Thinking
  • Future
  • Past

• As chief business affairs and legal officer, I am responsible for driving Airbnb's engagement strategy and civic partnership efforts as well as overseeing the company's global public policy, community mobilization, legal, communications, compliance, social initiatives, and philanthropy efforts.

  

  Belinda Johnson
  • Business
  • Community
  • Driving

• Eventually, it wasn't even your dad I wanted, just anybody. Anybody at all.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Dad
  • Wanted

• Life is made up of a series of judgments on insufficient data, and if we waited to run down all our doubts, it would flow past us.

  

  Learned Hand
  • Life
  • Up
  • Past

• I come from an ordinary family - my dad is a carpenter, a roof-maker - and we've always loved racing together.

  

  Sebastian Vettel
  • Together
  • Dad
  • Racing

• South Central is just who I am.

  

  Ice Cube
  • South Central