Ice Cube (O'Shea Jackson Sr.) Quotes

I do what I do. You like it, great. You don't, go listen to somebody else. I'm stickin' with the people who stuck with me.

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• I think when I first started acting there were different people who I thought, 'I want that person's career or that person's career.' And as time has gone on, it's become really clear to me what is important to me; getting the best roles, the roles that I feel are challenging and scary and that I haven't done yet.

  

  Carla Gugino
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  • Different

• It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard.

  

  M. Ward
  • People
  • Music
  • Luxury

• Oil has become the principal wealth in the hands of the great Yankee transnationals; through this energy source, they had an instrument that considerably expanded their political power in the world.

  

  Fidel Castro
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  • Power

• The beauty of soaps is that it takes a village to make it work, and you get to work with really hardworking people.

  

  Kassie DePaiva
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  • Beauty

• This is what I have discovered - and it has been a gift in itself - that books live over and over again in different people's minds. That I might mean one thing as I write, but a reader's experiences will take it somewhere else. That is like a conversation, I think. It is a true connecting up.

  

  Rachel Joyce
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• From the consumer perspective, what happened in the U.S. 10 years ago and Europe five years ago is now happening in Russia. People are beginning to understand that e-commerce is easy and safe.

  

  Maelle Gavet
  • People
  • Beginning
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• I've never pretended that I'm not female and vulnerable. To me, it's just being honest.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Honest
  • Female
  • Vulnerable

• My people were homesteading in Colorado before Emancipation.

  

  Pam Grier
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  • Emancipation

• I'm trying to work in studio movies, but they won't hire me.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Work
  • Trying
  • Me

• People may remember something I did on the field for a couple of days, maybe a week.

  

  LaDainian Tomlinson
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• It's important that people come see our show, because we are performers. We wanted people to see that.

  

  Zac Brown Band
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• You should see all the negative things that the Romanian press writes about me.

  

  Victor Ponta
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• My son, O'Shea. He looks like me, and he can rhyme.

  

  Ice Cube
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• I'm not going to change the world overnight. It's one person at a time, and hopefully they're people in positions of power who can help people get in those roles and really, truly embrace colorblind casting.

  

  Gabrielle Union
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• I was trying to be someone for the first part of high school. I was kind of this nerdy kid who didn't want to be a nerd anymore. Even talking about it, I'm embarrassed. I'm like, 'Ugh, why did you care what people thought?'

  

  Garrett Clayton
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• Our dream as actors is to tell interesting stories about interesting people.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
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• Some people believe they chose homosexuality, and some believe they didn't. Who's to say one is wrong? It's not fair to generalize anyone's sexuality or walk of life.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
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• The Marine Corps is some of the best acting training you could have. Having that responsibility for people's lives, suddenly time becomes a really valuable commodity and you want to make the most of it. And for acting, you just have to do the work, just keep doing it.

  

  Adam Driver
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  • Time
  • Work

• When asked to explain this space, I often ask people to forget pretty much everything you've heard about blockchains, crypto-currencies, and bitcoin, and instead dumb it down a lot and think about something no more complex or intimidating than good old-fashioned database technology.

  

  Blythe Masters
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• To change history is very slow. The first two times I came to the States - black people didn't have the right to vote.

  

  Agnes Varda
  • People
  • History
  • Black

• I have this dream of what I ultimately want my life to be like, and it involves a lot of quaint activities like cooking and canoeing and camping and hiking.

  

  Hannah Kearney
  • Life
  • Dream
  • My Life

• That which brought me into the capacity I now stand in, was the Petition and Advice given me by you, who, in reference to the ancient Constitution, did draw me here to accept the place of Protector. There is not a man living can say I sought it, no not a man, nor woman, treading upon English ground.

  

  Oliver Cromwell
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• I do what I do. You like it, great. You don't, go listen to somebody else. I'm stickin' with the people who stuck with me.

  

  Ice Cube
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