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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It is anomalous to hold that in order to convict a man the police cannot extract by force what is in his mind, but can extract what is in his stomach.
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Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent.
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My sister lives in Oklahoma. And, you know, it is so shocking that James Inhofe, the foremost climate-denying senator, is from the state that is so deeply climate-affected.
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If you would improve, submit to be considered wihout sense and foolish with respect to externals. Wish to be considered to know nothing; and if you shall seem to someone to be a person of importance, distrust yourself.
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A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down. If it is a good book nothing can hurt him. If it is a bad book nothing can help him.
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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.
