Ice Cube (O'Shea Jackson Sr.) Quotes
Music has done a lot to enhance the emotions of sports. It's played in arenas. Whenever there is footage cut together they're always using music. And it goes together, you know.
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When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.
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For me to be here tonight, everything had to be perfect. I had to get drafted by Utah, had to play with a point guard like John Stockton, and had to be coached by Jerry Sloan and Frank Layden.
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I love to beatbox and have been doing it before I even knew what it was.
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I'll always be back to the stage. I have no doubt that the stage will always call me back. There will always be a character that no one else can play, and I'll be back to play it.
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If I get to a place early in the morning, I try to walk around by myself. I still try to find cool places to go to, like a record store in St. Louis or some restaurant in Chicago.
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You must prune dead or dying wood.
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Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.
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Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the literature of the subject, and, above all, an imagination which worked with great power upon the facts of his own experience.
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I trust no one - that microphone, that book.
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I'd have loved to have appeared in 'Absolutely Fabulous' - that's one of my favourite shows.
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He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
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You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.
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World War II was a decisive time in our history and June 6, 1944, marked the decisive moment of the war.
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I was quite good at football once, although other than that my speciality would be maths. I'm great at sudokus and find all the spin-off games pretty easy too.
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I do not want to be a long-term CEO.
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The girl-next-door image is a sort of joke; for years, I couldn't get any roles other than as somebody dark.
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A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.
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Is it really true that religion makes people more kindly, generous, or loving? History tends to disprove this. The worst wars, the most vicious Inquisitions, the cruelest pogroms and persecutions, were both fomented and supported by religion.
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There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
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Silence, you know, is the best place to get close to spirit for me.
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What I find is that we're all human beings and that it's all very similar, what we believe. At the bottom, there's really not that much difference between Christians and Muslims and Hindus and Buddhists. We all worship God.
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When you tour, you regain the music and the connection with the audience.
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It takes power for the man of God in the pulpit to speak plainly about particular sins before the faces of those who are living in them; and still more power to do it with the rare tactfulness and tenderness of the Galilean preacher.
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Music has done a lot to enhance the emotions of sports. It's played in arenas. Whenever there is footage cut together they're always using music. And it goes together, you know.
