Ice Cube (O'Shea Jackson Sr.) Quotes
Don't worry about being a star, worry about doing good work, and all that will come to you.
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Remember that our sons and grandsons are going to do things that would stagger us.
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Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others.
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Peer pressure is something everyone will face in school. You have to really go by what you think is the right thing to do. Turn to the friends you trust the most when you are put in a compromising situation. If your friends are making the wrong decision, then turn to your parents.
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Hip-hop is a vehicle.
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I worked with the Neville Brothers for 40-some years on the highway, and up and down since I can remember - funk from New Orleans.
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In my novels, there are twelve ancient 'memory tools,' all now lost. Each of the 'Reincarnationist' books revolves around a different tool.
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Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
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Finish last in your league and they call you idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you doctor.
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Writing is not like acting, where you can pull these little stunts that create a particular effect. Words are all it is about, and the way you use words has to be individual and particular to you.
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For me, let's keep jazz as folk music. Let's not make jazz classical music. Let's keep it as street music, as people's everyday-life music. Let's see jazz musicians continue to use the materials, the tools, the spirit of the actual time that they're living in, as what they build their lives as musicians around.
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Embrace the grease, if any, and look fresh and human. I like to look like a glazed doughnut.
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People trash talk me.
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I remember looking back on a photo of me... wearing a suit that was, like, two sizes too big for me. I think a lot of guys don't know what fits.
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My mother took great relish in introducing me as 'This is my son - he's a doctor but not the kind that helps people.'
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I'm not one icon. I'm every icon. I'm an icon that is made out of all the colors on the palette at every time. I have no restrictions. No restrictions.
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I always consider Shakespeare like a huge room. I mean, you open the door, and you can go anywhere.
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I get a different kind of lyric from someone else that might make me go in a different musical direction.
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As I mentioned, I was a carpenter for a time.
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There's good and bad in everybody. I wasn't looking for the good, or looking for the bad. This is a man who signed his pact with the devil 20 years ago, and he's learned to live with it. He's tried to protect his family from it.
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Every writer, to some extent, writes about himself.
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You don't take it personally. You understand that if people are angry that somehow the government is failing, then they are going to look to the guy who represents government.
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I love being a part of Aqua Teen.
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If someone doesn't want to hire me because they think I'm too vocal, fine. I will do a play. I will always find a job. Let them try to get me out of this industry. I am not going to be silenced!
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Don't worry about being a star, worry about doing good work, and all that will come to you.
