Ice Cube (O'Shea Jackson Sr.) Quotes

Don't get a movie confused with real life. I'm a well-rounded human being like everyone else.

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• If you make a film too American, it won't travel. It will have no life outside of its own country.

  

  Baltasar Kormakur
  • Life
  • Country
  • American

• If you love things or ideas or people that contradict each other, you have to be prepared to fight for every square inch of intellectual real estate you occupy.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • People
  • Ideas
  • Fight

• I've been quite fascinated by the relative insignificance of human existence, the shortness of life. We might as well be a letter in a word in a sentence on a page in a book in a library in a city in one country in this enormous universe! And that kind of fear and insignificance has kept me awake at night.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Life
  • Country
  • Book

• There is no finer sensations in life that which comes with victory over one's self. Go forward to a goal of inward achievement, brushing aside all your old internal enemies as you advance.

  

  Vash Young
  • Life
  • Victory
  • Achievement

• It's a hard thing to imagine how somebody copes with grief and at the same time has to build a new life.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • Life
  • Time
  • Grief

• Now, occultism is not like mystic faculty, and it very seldom works in harmony either with business aptitude in the things of ordinary life or with a knowledge of the canons of evidence in its own sphere.

  

  A. E. Waite
  • Life
  • Business
  • Knowledge

• The things that drive me are poverty, and pain, and knowing that I don't want to end up being alone and I want to do something with my life and I want the name Dobson to remain in everyone's heads. Basically, just to rock and be the best performer I can be, and be true, and be real, and give people the real Fefe, nothing fake, all real.

  

  Fefe Dobson
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• Writing for the theater, you find yourself living a nocturnal life.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Yourself

• Speech and having a stammer is obviously a big part of my life.

  

  Gareth Gates
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Speech

• Over my career, I've reinvented myself numerous times. I covered the Pentagon, the State Department, and the CIA. I wrote about labor wars, trade wars and real wars. I chronicled a nuclear plant meltdown and the defeat of Communism. I co-founded a couple of media businesses.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Real
  • Career
  • Myself

• I guess if you have an original take on life, or something about you is original, you don't have to study people who came before you. You don't have to mimic anybody. You just have a gut feeling inside, an instinct that tells you what's right for you, and you can't do it in any other way.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • People
  • Life
  • Feeling

• The fact is, everything we want or yearn for is won through other people. No man on an island is happy; he is merely existing. The joyous life is the one filled with rich relationships.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • People
  • Life
  • Happy

• If you live in free countries, you don't have to spend all your life arguing about freedom because it is all around you. It seems redundant to make a lot of noise about something when, in fact, there it is. But if someone tries to remove it, it becomes important for you to formulate your own defenses of it.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Life
  • Important
  • Live

• I don't want to forgive myself. That's why I hate psychoanalysis I think if you're guilty of something you should live with it. Get rid of it - how can you get rid of a real guilt? I think people should live with it, face up to it.

  

  Orson Welles
  • People
  • Up
  • Live

• I've been a massive obsessive about jazz singers all my life.

  

  Eddi Reader
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Jazz

• When you discover first love as a teenager, your whole life revolves around it and you open yourself up to it.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
  • Life
  • Up
  • Love

• Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Life
  • Everything
  • Kindness

• 'Fallen Too Far' was my first NYT bestseller. That changed my life.

  

  Abbi Glines
  • Life
  • My Life
  • First

• Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without passion, without business, without entertainment, without care. It is then that he recognizes that he is empty, insufficient, dependent, ineffectual. From the depths of his soul now comes at once boredom, gloom, sorrow, chagrin, resentment and despair.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Business
  • Passion
  • Rest

• I changed those things that were in direct - my direct control. I mean, I - look, I'm proud of the fact that, with two weeks to go, we're probably the first administration in modern history that hasn't had a major scandal in the White House.

  

  Barack Obama
  • History
  • House
  • Control

• I love being with my friends, relaxing and talking.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Friends
  • Talking
  • Relaxing

• I really believe that everyone has a talent, ability, or skill that he can mine to support himself and to succeed in life.

  

  Dean Koontz
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Support

• I can walk into meetings now and ask for equal pay, and the people will listen to me. They may not give it to me, but I will be listened to. That's huge.

  

  Andrea Riseborough
  • People
  • May

• Don't get a movie confused with real life. I'm a well-rounded human being like everyone else.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Life
  • Real
  • Movie