Ice Cube (O'Shea Jackson Sr.) Quotes
'Boyz-n-the-Hood' was actually supposed to be written for Eazy's group. He had a group out in New York called Home Boys Only, called HBO. One of them looked like LL Cool J. Eazy wanted to write a song for them, a street song, like what we were doing on the mix tapes. So when I wrote it, it was too West Coast for them.
Ice Cube
Quotes to Explore
There are recurring elements in popularized fairy tales, such as absent parents, some sort of struggle, a transformation, and a marriage. If you look at a range of stories, you find many stories about marriage, sexual initiation, abandonment. The plots often revolve around what to me seem to be elemental fears and desires.
Kate Bernheimer
I don't think anybody thinks they're bad, just in life, in general.
Taylor Kinney
There are so many female roles - particularly for young women - that are just somebody's girlfriend or somebody's daughter, or that are accessories to the main story rather than being three-dimensional characters.
Hannah Murray
The purpose of armed struggle is not simply to kill... its purpose is to reach a political goal.
Abu Abbas
We care about margins.
Barry Lam
Then you had people who wanted to get into comedy just to get a TV deal.
Wanda Sykes
Nothing drew me to the film business. I was propelled by the fear and anxiety of Vietnam. I had been drafted into the Marines. My brother was already serving in Vietnam. I bought, if you will, a stay of execution - both literally and figuratively - and went on to graduate school of business from the law school that I was attending.
Peter Guber
You know, my parents had a restaurant. And I left home, actually, in 1949, when I was 13 years old, to go into apprenticeship. And actually when I left home, home was a restaurant - like I said, my mother was a chef. So I can't remember any time in my life, from age 5, 6, that I wasn't in a kitchen.
Jacques Pepin
A people's relationship to their heritage is the same as the relationship of a child to its mother.
John Henrik Clarke
Reality is everywhere, and to find It 'you' must first disappear.
H. W. L. Poonja
Boxing has kept me off the streets, stops me smoking and drinking and gives me something to do.
Billy Joe Saunders
'Boyz-n-the-Hood' was actually supposed to be written for Eazy's group. He had a group out in New York called Home Boys Only, called HBO. One of them looked like LL Cool J. Eazy wanted to write a song for them, a street song, like what we were doing on the mix tapes. So when I wrote it, it was too West Coast for them.
Ice Cube
