Ice Cube (O'Shea Jackson Sr.) Quotes
Sometimes when you're relegated to your neighborhood, you forget that there's more important things than your neighborhood going on out in the world.
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If it weren't for the Internet, WWE probably wouldn't even know my name. If I had to rely on 'Pro Wrestling Illustrated' to get my name out there, it would have been a much more difficult road.
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Hollywood is strange in and of itself. People dress up and pretend to be other people, and you can either make millions of dollars, or no money. It's odd.
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And it's one thing to give people freedom and something else to deny the rights of Christians to assert their faith in order to keep Hindus from feeling upset.
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Social revolutions are never simple.
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We are more casual about qualifying the people we allow to act as advocates in the courtroom than we are about licensing electricians.
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I was the first one in my family to go away to college. I came from a small town where there was no guidance in the high school at all. It was a mill town, and I never knew anyone who made their living from the arts. When you did go away to college, you went away to be something - an engineer, or a teacher, or a chemist.
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Black beans and soy beans are the cornerstones of longevity diets around the world.
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If you don't have liberty and self-determination, you've got nothing, that's what this is what this country is built on. And this is the ultimate self-determination, when you determine how and when you're going to die when you're suffering.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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We are in favor of greater free markets.
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I have a lot of friends and fans in Canada and as a matter of fact I met a fan from there that came down to my office. It was nice and we took pictures and had a nice talk.
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To me the definition of true masculinity – and femininity, too – is being able to lay in your own skin comfortably.
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Without understanding yourself, what is the use of trying to understand the world?
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The studio have always claimed that the ship is the star of the show, especially when they're renegotiating contracts.
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I don't let anything kill my spirit.
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Whether you're keeping a journal or writing as a meditation, it's the same thing. What's important is you're having a relationship with your mind.
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The irony is that, coming from a white-collar British background, I tend to play blue-collar Americans!
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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Instead of plastic surgery, I'd rather have a height enhancement surgery.
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There was the time I bought three cars in the span of three or four weeks. It was crazy; it wasn't greedy. It was mine, my girl's, my mom's. I got Benzes for my ladies. But I felt crazy. You have to understand I come from a world where we're very modest. But that's not greedy. That's nice, right?
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The world has changed profoundly since our programs were first established.
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When I wrote 'The Interestings,' I wanted to let time unspool, to give the book the feeling of time passing. I had to allow myself the freedom to move back and forth in time freely, and to trust that readers would accept this.
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I still remember, 40 years ago, when I was shackled and put in prison... Being an American citizen didn't mean a thing.
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Sometimes when you're relegated to your neighborhood, you forget that there's more important things than your neighborhood going on out in the world.
