Ice Cube (O'Shea Jackson Sr.) Quotes
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If we could all figure out a way to just be true to ourselves and have a good time doing what we're doing, it would be a lot more fun.
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I'm 43. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet.
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I don't know if I actually am good at the sight of blood. An accident on the street gets me very, very upset.
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I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.
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Tyrannies not only want to control your mind and thoughts but your flesh as well.
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The concentration of the ferment iron in living substance is very small, being in the region of 1 g to 10 million g of cellular substance.
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The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal.
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I'll eat one cookie, not a whole box of cookies. But I'll still eat the one cookie... sometimes two, or even three. But not the whole box.
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God doesn't know things. He is things.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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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 thing that can get kind of annoying is, when you travel so much, how hectic it gets. I was being interviewed once - it was a phone interview - and they said, 'Where are you right now?' and I didn't know where I was.
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'Runaround Sue' was a big record for me, as well as the music video for it.
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I think Mr. Wilson will have to be the rest of the way alone.
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To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The young man who starts out to be poor and honorable, holds in his hand one of the strongest elements of success.
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The strong desire to include every vital component of life instead of excluding part of them for the sake of too narrow and dogmatic an approach has characterized my whole life.
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Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.
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My films have been progressing towards a certain kind of minimalism, even though it was never intended. Elements which can be eliminated have been eliminated.
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When I got started in New York, it wasn't like it is now. If you were different from Miles and Dizzy, it was very difficult to make gigs and make money with your own style.
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You win some, lose some, and wreck some.
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That's the scary part about TV, how you'll feel about it in six years.
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People generally don't recognize how long it takes to conceive, publish, and write a book.
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People in the Pentagon had colleagues killed and maimed by bin Laden. They're trying to find bin Laden and kill him and his cult. Naturally they consider that a legitimate thing to do, but they're having mixed success at the job.
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When people see the Cubevision logo, they should know it's something good, something worth checking out.
