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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Even as a kid, I read 'Jung – Reflections and Individuation In Fairy Tales'; all the inner circle of Jung was a real huge thing for me.
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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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That brings me to Dennis Ritchie. Our collaboration has been a thing of beauty.
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To me, the world's rather beautiful if you look at it. Especially nature.
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Obviously I'm very disappointed. I trained very hard this summer and felt in a good shape to play the U.S. Open.
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I think the truth is always simple. It has pretty much got to be. It needs to be simple enough for a child to understand. Otherwise it'd be too late. By the time you figured it out it would be too late.
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It is heroic to prepare for war with a tyrant power. Patriots will always win the admiration of mankind for daring to meet the bloodshed of battle for their country's liberty. But the patriot who is willing to go to that sacrifice will be the first to condemn the aimless and secret shedding of blood in time of peace.
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Don't worry about being a star, worry about doing good work, and all that will come to you.
