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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Ultravox were the blueprint for what I wanted to do, but I stumbled across them by accident.
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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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Things are sweeter when they're lost. I know--because once I wanted something and got it. It was the only thing I ever wanted badly, Dot, and when I got it it turned to dust in my hand.
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I will purify my bodily actions through repeated reflection. I will purify my verbal actions through repeated reflection. I will purify my mental actions through repeated reflection. That's how you should train yourself.
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It's true in most movies I don't use my own voice.
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For a production that suggests a mysterious dreamscape, I have a particular affection for the Vivian Beaumont Theater. It is the largest dramatic space available in New York City in terms of plays, although musicals have been done there very successfully as well.
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The natural world around us shows the way to relief. All of life is maintained by the sun, by the air, by water, by the earth and its resources. And to whom was the sun given? To everyone. If there is any one thing that people do have in common, it is the gift of sunlight. But as the early Christians said, "If the sun were not hung so high, someone would have claimed it long ago."
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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.
