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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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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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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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My father is quite conservative and religious, and he's been wanting me to get married since I was 15.
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I would love to rent a little cottage or cabin in Colorado and learn to ski or snowboard. And on the warmer side, I also want to rent a house in Hawaii and learn to surf!
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There's a place in me that can really relate to being the underdog.
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The science shows that the best way to use money is to take the issue of money off the people. Pay people enough so that money isn't an issue, and they can focus on doing great work.
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Women who give up their children for adoption are years and years later talking about how painful it was, much more than women who have abortions.
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There are so many new young poets, novelists, and playwrights who are much less politically committed than the former generations. The trend is to be totally concentrated on the literary aesthetic and to consider politics to be something dirty that shouldn't be mixed with an artistic or a literary vocation.
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We are our children's first teachers.
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There are three orchestras in Munich, all world-quality, in a city of one million. Yet every hall is full.
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For a border state, I would argue that Texas is less lunatic on the subject of immigration issues than other places around it, like Arizona. They're much more comfortable with their long-term identity as a place with a very large Hispanic population.
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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.
