Ice Cube (O'Shea Jackson Sr.) Quotes
What I learned from architectural drafting is that everything has to have a plan to work. You just can't wing it. I can't get all the materials I need for a house and just start building. Whether it's a career, family, life - you have to plan it out.
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Only time, education and plenty of good schooling will make anti-segregation work.
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I've been lucky enough to work in pop culture, especially with people right before they popped.
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I gave up school. I gave up a really, really good job. I gave up a lot of stuff. I cut a lot of people out of my life so I could just focus on my fighting dreams.
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Whose leadership, whose judgment, whose values do you want in the White House when that crisis lands like a thud on the Oval Office desk?
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Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.
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A person needs at intervals to separate himself from family and companions and go to new places. He must go without his familiars in order to be open to influences, to change.
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Life is an incurable disease.
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It was the dumbest thing I had ever seen, but it's a family thing, and I guess it's clean.
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My life, my family and my friends are back in the U.K., so ideally I would love the kind of career that is split between London and New York.
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I really like boats. If you want to go somewhere, you just take your house with you.
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I've led a charmed life. I've known people who have been depressed, and I've never had that.
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I am a total workaholic. If I don't shoot for two days, I get uncomfortable at home. I won't comment on my personal life. That is totally out of bounds. When I do get married, everyone will know.
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Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life.
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I always say, one way to connect with a working mother is to ask her what she has done before work that day!
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Anyone who thinks Peter Jackson would fall for market forces around him rather than artistic integrity doesn't know the guy or the body of his work.
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Would this country be better off if no one drank? Yes, it would be, but we tried that; it doesn't work. I don't want to tell anybody that they can't have as many drinks as they want every single night of the week as long as they don't get behind the wheel of a car.
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I dance. A lot. I work grief and sadness out of my body when I dance, and I bring in joy and rhythm.
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But I now entered on my fifteenth year - a sad epoch in the life of a slave girl. My master began to whisper foul words in my ear. Young as I was, I could not remain ignorant of their import.
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The best engineered organisms can outpace others, even if they start smaller or later.
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We're not getting any younger.
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I hate Iran. I hate the Iranian government. It's a cruel and evil government.
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I definitely think being a young girl, there's a time where - like when you're in middle school or when you first start liking boys - you don't really feel comfortable. You remember that time when you first got your period, or when your boobs started coming in, that you were like, 'This is weird.' You have to grow into yourself.
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Cry me a river, build a bridge, and get over it.
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What I learned from architectural drafting is that everything has to have a plan to work. You just can't wing it. I can't get all the materials I need for a house and just start building. Whether it's a career, family, life - you have to plan it out.
