Ice Cube (O'Shea Jackson Sr.) Quotes
There's a lot of talent in South Central L.A., in Compton and Long Beach and Watts, and the city north of Pico pretty much sits back and waits for that talent to emerge and then steps in.
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Manhood coerced into sensitivity is no manhood at all.
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I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.
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I managed to slip two children out in the middle of my career and have been lucky with all the work.
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Be who you are and be that well.
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All my brothers and my dad at one point had dreadlocks.
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Can anyone understand how it is to have lived in the White House and then, suddenly, to be living alone as the President's widow?
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Hillary Clinton almost got to be president. The reasons why she didn't become president had to do with bad judgments about how to handle the early caucus states, which is not a gender-specific trait.
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There's no musical landscape to poetry. It has somewhat of a higher standard than songs, I think.
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I think lots of ideas are sometimes in our heads without us quite, you know, knowing it.
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I know what poverty is.
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Everything and anything is valuable.
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You can't come into this world without becoming its victim.
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If you only write when the muse strikes, you won't get anything done. You have to write consistently, when your schedule says you should. And that's hard.
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I walk my dog at dawn because I don't like people to be around.
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I am capable of much more. I guess every artist feels that way. If you are satisfied, you begin to stagnate. I want to grow as an actress every day. There are so many things you can learn, and you can improve upon your skills and abilities every day.
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It wasn't not being famous any more, or even not being a recording artist. It was having nobody who needed me, no phones ringing, nothing to do. Because I'm still too young to do nothing. I was only 24 when all that happened. Now, at 40, I feel I've got more to give than I ever have.
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There is an urgent need for the Central government to take the lead in ensuring health and nutrition service delivery.
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My parents, Gary and Patricia, let me be in my world. They never told me what I couldn't do. It helped me adapt in a positive way.
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What 'Twilight Zone' did was show we all have a great capacity for good and evil.
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I'm a British designer, and it's great to show on your own ground.
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For me, ancestry is just one thing that connects us to people, and feeling connected to other people is generally a good thing, as long as one kind of connection does not have primacy over all the others. Heredity, race and nationhood are not the best criteria by which to judge our fellow humans.
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His life was one long extravaganza, like living inside a Faberge egg.
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There's a lot of talent in South Central L.A., in Compton and Long Beach and Watts, and the city north of Pico pretty much sits back and waits for that talent to emerge and then steps in.
