Ice Cube (O'Shea Jackson Sr.) Quotes
I'm just an entertainer, man. I don't like to pigeonhole myself to anything. I love to do it all.
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Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it.
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We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.
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I really love storytelling.
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The white man made the mistake of letting me read his history books. He made the mistake of teaching me that Patrick Henry was a patriot and George Washington – wasn't nothing non-violent about old Pat or George Washington.
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I am a hopeless romantic and I love to spoil my girlfriends.
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Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.
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As a kid, I kind of spent my life being amazed by being tricked. I love being tricked. I still love it today.
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My dream as an actor growing up was always to challenge myself to different genres, different roles, and it's actually rare that an actor's given that opportunity to do that.
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I want to love life.
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Suddenly I was the man who got the part that every actor in the English language was trying to get. I was really scared. I had talked the talk, and now I had to walk the walk. For three days, I couldn't answer the phone.
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I love music; I come from a region of Kurdistan that is a base for music.
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I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.
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One of the reasons we all still read Jane Austen is because her books are about universal things which still matter today - love, money, family. They haven't gone out of fashion, so it's not throwing the baby out with the bathwater to rework her in a contemporary style.
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I didn't like the idea of being foolish, but I learned pretty soon that it was essential to fail and be foolish.
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One man's remorse is another man's reminiscence.
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Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters.
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I am trying to do comedy on every single medium. I consider myself a public servant.
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Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier.
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Songwriter friends will be like, 'Oh my God, when are you going to put out 'Love Triangle?'' It's just been that song for me that really helped me get a lot of writing sessions and helped jump-start my writing career.
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We've written something like 900 songs in all.
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The rapprochement of peoples is only possible when differences of culture and outlook are respected and appreciated rather than feared and condemned, when the common bond of human dignity is recognized as the essential bond for a peaceful world.
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I don't listen to music made by white people. I especially hate anything where a guitar is used. I don't listen to white people and guitars.
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I'm just an entertainer, man. I don't like to pigeonhole myself to anything. I love to do it all.
