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.Ice Cube
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Remember that our sons and grandsons are going to do things that would stagger us.
Daniel Burnham -
Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others.
Sallust -
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.
Madisen Beaty -
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.
Aaron Neville -
In my novels, there are twelve ancient 'memory tools,' all now lost. Each of the 'Reincarnationist' books revolves around a different tool.
M. J. Rose -
Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
Samuel Johnson
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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.
Damon Galgut -
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.
Pat Metheny -
Embrace the grease, if any, and look fresh and human. I like to look like a glazed doughnut.
Paloma Elsesser -
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.
Talib Kweli Black Star -
My mother took great relish in introducing me as 'This is my son - he's a doctor but not the kind that helps people.'
Randy Pausch -
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.
Lady Gaga
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I always consider Shakespeare like a huge room. I mean, you open the door, and you can go anywhere.
Campbell Scott -
I get a different kind of lyric from someone else that might make me go in a different musical direction.
Barry Mann -
As I mentioned, I was a carpenter for a time.
Jack Vance -
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.
Sam Mendes -
I don't think limits.
Usain Bolt -
You walk on a set, and you have no idea - that's why I don't storyboard. It's all possible.
Barry Jenkins
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The moment one accosts a stranger or is accosted by him is above all in this life the moment of drama... Whoever we meet watches us intently at the quick, strange moment of meeting, to see whether we are disposed to be friendly.
Haniel Long -
Broadway is a very different kind of place. It's kind of like Nashville in that there's a certain amount of people that are involved, and those people are what run it.
John Mellencamp -
I'd rather make less money and live in a just world.
David Clennon -
France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.
Charles de Gaulle -
Relationships are eternal. The 'separation' is another chapter in the relationship. Often, letting go of the old form of the relationship becomes a lesson in pure love much deeper than any would have learned had the couple stayed together.
Marianne Williamson -
Don't worry about being a star, worry about doing good work, and all that will come to you.
Ice Cube