Ice Cube (O'Shea Jackson Sr.) Quotes
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You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'
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The road to democracy is rarely smooth, but for Egyptian women, it has been exceptionally bumpy.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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I probably get strangers coming up to me two or three times a week to just say something nice. I get more than my share of compliments as I walk through my daily life. I'm not having to show off or make a point about how good I am at doing something. I think I've always kind of been that way.
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I was initially very interested in public policy, but then after my masters at Harvard, I felt that it was important to get a better handle on the economics of it as well. I did my Ph.D. in macroeconomics, and my thesis - 'Why Is It That Some Countries Save And Others Not?' - was on savings.
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Fashion breaks my heart.
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My life has been a dream. If someone had to write a story about it, it would seem a little unreal. It's the kind of story I would read and say, 'Nah, that's not possible.'
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The field of the novel is very rich. If you're a composer, you're well aware of the history of composition, and you are trying to make your music part of that history. You're not ahistorical. In the same way, I think, if you write now, you are writing in the historical context of what the novel has been and what possibilities it has revealed.
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Nobody else is stupid enough to get themselves into the straits that I get into.
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One thing I noticed working in the Bronx is that leaders come in the craziest places. They don't always show up at community board meetings. Sometimes it's just the guys on the corner that the boys on the block respect.
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D.C. is where I started. That's home for me. I always love coming back to the area. They treat me so well, and people show up. They're excited and claim me as their own. I love it.
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There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing - but we all do and call it Hope.
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There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.
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Because Islam in its original form was tough and hard, not weak and pliable.
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Many ethnic minorities chafed at the postcolonial nationalism of India and Pakistan, and some rebelled.
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Capitalist systems function less well without state protection of investors, lenders, and companies against monopoly, deception, and fraud.
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The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.
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Farmers in Missouri and across the country must comply with a variety of federal, state, and local regulations as they grow the crops and raise the livestock that we depend on to feed the nation and the world.
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We have two lives the one we learn with and the life we live after that.
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I definitely want to start a family, but that will happen when it's supposed to.
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You should write, first of all, to please yourself. You shouldn't care a damn about anybody else at all. But writing can't be a way of life; the important part of writing is living. You have to live in such a way that your writing emerges from it.
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If we have a heart for the magnitudes of life, it will not seem vain to believe that God Himself should guard it.
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To live is not to breathe but to act. It is to make use of our organs, our senses, our faculties, of all the parts of ourselves which give us the sentiment of our existence. The man who has lived the most is not he who has counted the most years but he who has most felt life.
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I really appreciate family. I really can't imagine life without them!
