Ice Cube (O'Shea Jackson Sr.) Quotes
When I was in N.W.A. and didn't get paid all the money I was owed, that's when the business side of showbiz hit me.
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I suppose Spotify is a good thing. The ads are quite annoying, but a lot of people seem to like it and use it. I don't myself, but it seems like a good idea, and the labels are getting a huge amount of money off it, but the artists aren't, so that must be good for them... but not us.
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Romeo Must Die came at the right time. It was the right vehicle for me.
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I don't know if I've ever played a character who's close to me. There have been some elements of myself in different roles. Sometimes, I show one side of myself and then completely conceal the other.
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This bikini made me a success.
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I've gone very far, far away, but my character keeps me close to home.
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Where issues used to be, say, parochial or local in Ireland or England and so forth, all politics is global now because all business is global.
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I like to put a stake in people, because I know people helped me.
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To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious.
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Carefully calculate the potential size of your market to make sure you can grow. Before starting Mint, I knew that there were about 20 million people who had purchased 'Quicken' or 'Microsoft Money' over the years, and 80 million people using online banking in the U.S. alone.
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It took me years to learn that sentences in fiction must do much more than stand around and look pretty.
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I dread the idea of a paparazzi snapping me while I'm out running.
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It's not often that the idea of continuing something for a potentially long period of time sounds exciting to me, because I really am a gypsy by nature.
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Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you?
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Nobody talks about how Puffy went to Howard University or about Lil Wayne attending the University of Houston. All the young kids know is what they see on the videos. They don't realize that these guys have taken managerial and business courses, and know how to brand and how to market themselves. They're very smart.
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To me, it's weird when people review improv at all.
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For me, peace is a fundamental human right of every child; it is inevitable and divine.
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Helping doing business easier, we choose the name Alibaba because it is a global company. It is founded in China, but it was created for the world.
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I spend my money on my props and my creations. I'm an inventor.
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I think actors make the mistake of finding their little niche in the business and once they try to do something a little darker, boom, they get slapped across the face for it, so they go back to what they did before.
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Jealousy is a miserable feeling. It means you aspire to something that you cannot have. Even in love, it is better to leave, better not to waste time.
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You don't have to subject yourself to the sweep and rigor of Bourdieu's book 'Distinction' to feel how thoroughly a lower-calorie version of its ideas has been absorbed into the cultural bloodstream.
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I want to get off with the screenwriting.
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In early drafts, one of the trickiest things for me to do was to realize that the techniques and devices that make readable and compelling nonfiction are not always identical to the ones that make good fiction.
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When I was in N.W.A. and didn't get paid all the money I was owed, that's when the business side of showbiz hit me.
