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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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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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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At some point, you decide to take something you really like and turn it into a business you love.
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I always place myself as the archetypal Cure fan. I'm the wrong age, but I still think that if I like anything particularly, our fans will.
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Just the fact that Hilary Clinton won the popular vote by such a large number gives some validation to the impulse to stand firm. If we don't, I think within a year administration is pretty much going to dismantle American society as we've known it. I'm not sure that we're able to stop it from happening, but I don't think people should just roll over and passively watch it happen.
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The petty man is eager to make boasts, yet desires that others should believe in him. He enthusiastically engages in deception, yet wants others to have affection for him. He conducts himself like an animal, yet wants others to think well of him.
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Turkey is a model of economic and social development, especially in terms of human resources and regional cooperation.
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I think I was a pretty energetic kid. Well, I was energetic until about my mid-20s when I discovered alcohol. That's not entirely true, but you get older and the edge comes off.
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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.
