Ice Cube (O'Shea Jackson Sr.) Quotes
I have great people, smart people that are around me and we love the challenge. I guess it's like climbing a mountain or building a building. It's a challenge but you love every challenge that it brings or presents itself.

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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
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If I had a big brother who was a year older than me or something, I probably wouldn't have ended up being a filmmaker.
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What's true for churches is true for other institutions: the older and more organized they get, the less adaptable they become. That's why the most resilient things in our world - biological life, stock markets, the Internet - are loosely organized.
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A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce one; in that of men of sense, a useful and instructive one.
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I always said I'm not disappointed with Obama because I voted for him because he was black, and as long as he kept being black, I was a happy man.
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I am a very reclusive, private person.
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When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.
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I didn't choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me.
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We don't expect every operator to be Christian, but we tell them we do expect them to operate on Christian principles.
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We're going to have shortages and prices are going to go up. Gasoline is going to be extremely tight for us.
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For every three scripts that you get through, one will be made, and that doesn't even necessarily mean that they're going to cast you in it.
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English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.
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A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song.
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To be allowed for the first time in your later career to play leading parts in extremely popular movies is not a situation to worry about.
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I play the father in the scene when Will and Tommy go back to Tommy's old apartment. It was a big mistake. I hope not to be in the next movie I direct.
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What there is no dispute about is whether or not China is a currency manipulator. They are a currency manipulator. They actively intervene every single day to keep the value of their currency less than it would be against the dollar than if it floated freely. We think. Even China barely disputes that.
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I must represent France, and I want to be elegant, and I want the French people to be proud of me, you know.
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The People's Republic of China has not yet reached the military might of the Soviet Empire. It requires a little more time and a little more infusion of Western aid, loans, technology and the hard currency of our tourists.
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I don't write to give joy to readers but to give them a conscience.
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Ever since I'm done with Zim everyone thinks that I'm going to go back to comics. I've been flooded with emails asking me if I'm working on the new Johnny over and over again.
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It's good to have a lot of once-in-a-lifetimes in your lifetime. If you get the chance to skydive, go skydiving. If you're offered a part in a weird Shakespeare play in San Diego, slap on some tights and rock out some iambic pentameter.
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Some people choose to go on 'American Idol' or another singing contest, and some people choose to beat down barrooms before anyone even knows who they are, in order to get a fan base, so when they do get a record deal, they have that to put in front of a label.
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Besides, at 62 years old I look like I'm about 27.
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I have great people, smart people that are around me and we love the challenge. I guess it's like climbing a mountain or building a building. It's a challenge but you love every challenge that it brings or presents itself.