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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For some obscure reason, some authorities seem bent on making the drinking of wine a ritual more complicated than chess. They have succeeded in inhibiting a large section of the public and depriving them of one of the greatest pleasures known to man.
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When you have an important story to tell, the words you need seem to come of their own accord.
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...it's like this white-Indian thing has gotten out of control. And the thing with the blacks and the Mexicans. Everybody blaming everybody...I don't know what happened. I can't explain it all. Just look around at the world. Look at this country. Things just aren't like they used to be.' 'Son, things have never been like what you think they used to be.
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I've got friends in the different teams I've played for, but family is the most important thing to me. That will always be the case.
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My mom always makes the whole family pile into the car and drive around to look at the Christmas lights. My brother and I never want to do it, but my mom just loves it!
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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.
