Ice Cube (O'Shea Jackson Sr.) Quotes
If it was all about me, I'd do a whole lot of pop records, make a whole lot of money, just rake in the dough. But it's never been all about me. It's all about being a voice for the voiceless. People who can't speak for themselves, who don't have a mic, don't have a say.Ice Cube
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My dad was pretty strict. We didn't even get to watch any of his movies until I was, like, 17 years old. I didn't even see his stand-up, really, until I started doing stand-up, and that was when I was 22. So he's pretty strict. We had curfews until I was 17... he didn't play around.
Damon Wayans, Jr. -
Being popular comes when you have everything. But to be liked, it means that you must be treating people with respect and you must be showing kindness toward them.
Queen Rania of Jordan -
When I was prepping for my Broadway debut as Romeo, it really hit me that I had never done that. I had trained at drama school for three years in my late teens to early 20s, and I'd studied Shakespeare, of course, but I hadn't actually performed it. So to do something like Romeo for my first Broadway role was a challenge.
Orlando Bloom -
The penalty of success is to be bored by people who used to snub you.
Nancy Astor -
There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
Edmund Phelps -
When I was being brought up, we weren't allowed to wallow in self-pity, which was a thoroughly good thing. We were all fine and healthy because that was what we were told to be.
Maeve Binchy
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I am a very loyal man and always keep my promises when I commit to something.
Sam Heughan -
I like Disney Channel a lot, and I also like to watch 'Full House.'
Maddie Ziegler -
In our tabulation of psychoanalytic results, we have classed those who stopped treatment together with those not improved. This appears to be reasonable; a patient who fails to finish his treatment, and is not improved, is surely a therapeutic failure.
Hans Eysenck -
Kevin Costner told me that 'True' was his and his wife's song. I'm not sure if that's a good thing because they split up soon after.
Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet -
I call tennis the McDonald's of sport - you go in, they make a quick buck out of you, and you're out.
Pat Cash -
Happiness is a mysterious concept. It seems to work best as futurity: at that point I will be happy, et cetera. I feel like I experience small pieces of joy day to day.
Rachel Kushner
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My wife never throws anything at me that I can't handle.
Taye Diggs -
It's a very Southern thing to be interested in dark stuff.
Karin Slaughter -
As long as I love Beauty I am young.
W. H. Davies -
You have to love your body, respect it, and treat it well.
Irina Shayk -
No two wars are identical.
Kate Adie -
It's very hard to transgress; we have the furniture of transgression without the imagery and iconography to actually do it.
Irvine Welsh
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In the years that some of my colleagues have served - 20, 30 years - they’ve never seen it like this.
Gabrielle Giffords -
I love the game of baseball.
Dusty Baker -
I'm very representational some of the time, and a little all of the time. But when you're painting out of your unconscious, figures are bound to emerge.
Jackson Pollock -
A small house must depend on its grouping with other houses for its beauty, and for the preservation of light air and the maximum of surrounding open space.
Clarence Stein -
Listen at me. The end is almost never far off any time at all!
J. California Cooper -
If it was all about me, I'd do a whole lot of pop records, make a whole lot of money, just rake in the dough. But it's never been all about me. It's all about being a voice for the voiceless. People who can't speak for themselves, who don't have a mic, don't have a say.
Ice Cube