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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By no means do I want to try to leave country music. That's absolutely where I want to stay.
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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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I get mad quick and and go off at the handle quick.
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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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New Orleans is a place where people are deliberately undereducated so that they can be a labour class - the economy there is tourism, and one of the only outlets that black males have traditionally been allowed is to play jazz music, y'know?
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From all indications, the Offutt runway replacement is not a matter of 'if.' It is a matter of 'when.'
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...education is the key to health and to social progress. The fact is that the average expectation of life of an Indian has doubled since Independence. In fact, it is 61 years now as against 28 or 30 years at the time of Independence.
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The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
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I feel like Sony appreciates good music from a talented artist.
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Don't worry about being a star, worry about doing good work, and all that will come to you.
