Ice Cube (O'Shea Jackson Sr.) Quotes
It's funny how people who ain't never been down there can think that America is so fair and that we should be alright. It's funny that the people who have their foot on our neck are telling us, 'Get up. What's wrong with you?'
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Everyone romanticizes somebody.
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When I was about four, people used to walk up to my mom and say I should be in commercials.
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I've had the good fortune of studying the 17th-century art of Amsterdam in preparation for a film.
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The only thing that permits human beings to collaborate with one another in a truly open-ended way is their willingness to have their beliefs modified by new facts. Only openness to evidence and argument will secure a common world for us.
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Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work.
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A lot of people tell me I have to trash-talk more, but I got here with my fists, fighting, not with my mouth.
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When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.
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Yes, my parents are strict about me having a childhood. I go ice skating and sledding, and swimming in the summer.
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I've never been someone who needs a lot of takes or enjoys a lot of takes. I like the fast thing of it.
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It's not like I've ever been the popular pretty girl at school or anything. I was always such a weirdo.
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I have been afraid of guns, I have sworn I would never use a gun on another person and so did not need one, and I have wanted to deny the existence of evil.
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With experience, you improve. I'm a better player now, more complete than I was when I was player of the year.
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Actors do like watching girls parade down the runway for some reason.
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Relationships are people's No. 1 priorities. They want to have good relationships, and a lot of times they don't.
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When I first met my wife, I really just settled down quite a bit and I started living a much cleaner lifestyle. I was able to concentrate on things that I neglected in the past a little more and I was spending a lot more time at home than I normally would.
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It's aggravating that Hollywood has never gotten credit for the role it played in promoting modern design.
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The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free.
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There has always been a saying in baseball that you can't make a hitter, but I think you can improve a hitter. More than you can improve a fielder. More mistakes are made hitting than in any other part of the game.
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Lincoln was the spokesman of the rising capitalist class of the North, who viewed the emancipation of Negro slaves as indispensable to the development and triumph of the manufacturers and bankers of the industrial North, East and West over the slave-holder of the South.
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What was interesting was talking to older gay men about what it was like being gay in the Eighties.
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I went to an all-girls school for part of high school, and the idea of boys was amazing to me; like, all I ever wanted to do was kiss boys and be around boys.
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That is the American story. People, just like you, following their passions, determined to meet the times on their own terms. They weren't doing it for the money. Their titles weren't fancy. But they changed the course of history and so can you.
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It's funny how people who ain't never been down there can think that America is so fair and that we should be alright. It's funny that the people who have their foot on our neck are telling us, 'Get up. What's wrong with you?'
