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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  • Time
  • Different

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

  

  M. Ward
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  • 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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• 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
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  • Beginning
  • Perspective

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

  

  Parker Posey
  • Work
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• 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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• Gymnastics demands so much of our time. We train all week and travel and compete on weekends. The people you're surrounded by really become your second family, your best friends, your sisters. My coach was like a second mother for me.

  

  Amanda Borden
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• I still havent got over the fact that I wont be the only person seeing the film. Im used to watching home videos of when I was little, singing Barbie Girl and stuff, and nobody sees them except the family. Now, there will be loads of people going to see The Golden Compass. At least, we hope they will.

  

  Dakota Blue Richards
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• You never hold back. If I turn up to the track and feel cautious or not committed, I turn around and go home. If you don't have that full commitment when you're pedaling into a 40-foot jump, there's not much room for error, and you'll come off worse.

  

  Caroline Buchanan
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• Our people get profit-sharing checks. I got a report the other day that says that 84 percent of our people participate in our stock purchase program, where they can buy stock at a 15 percent discount.

  

  David Neeleman
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  • Stock

• Once in a while, I have the chance to speak to students. I learn from them as much as they learn from me. It's a great dialogue to create.

  

  Ann Callis
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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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