LL Cool J (James Todd Smith) Quotes
I've never been one to have to manipulate women. I always want it to be like a mutual thing, like everybody loves everybody.

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I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
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I'm never nervous about being vulnerable with my songwriting because my favorite artists are ones that are vulnerable. I want people to feel like they know me.
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I want variety. I certainly don't want any kind of hype if I can avoid it. I'm trying to play parts which are a little more out there, but I want variety, I suppose, because - like a lot of people - I'm easily bored.
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In Kenya women are the first victims of environmental degradation, because they are the ones who walk for hours looking for water, who fetch firewood, who provide food for their families.
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The message I like to convey to women and girls across the globe is that there is no glass ceiling.
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Never met Levinson. Ever. He directed those American Express spots for us for Seinfeld, and I was off on some guest spot that I didn't even want to do... and I got talked into doing it.
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I'm a collaborator. I know I don't know everything. I don't want to know everything.
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In 2016, makeup has become an incredible passion and hobby for men and women, but it hasn't become mainstream.
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If you're filming somebody doing something they really want to do, you're probably not very high on their list of problems to deal with. You see James Carville on the phone - he's like that whether you have a camera or not. He isn't doing it just for you, and that's hard to explain.
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I want to find a nice decent job as a helicopter pilot.
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I don't want to be a grown-up anymore; it's hard!
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I have really high expectations for myself, so I just want to go out there and compete.
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My favorite animal is a polar bear. They're going extinct, and I really don't want that to happen.
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We have to give feminism a shot. Out of sheer self preservation, we have to stand aside and let women run the show.
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I want every Grammy.
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The more insight I get, the more scared I get of women in general.
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On Earth, men and women are taking the same risks. Why shouldn't we be taking the same risks in space?
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The fact that the movement was carried on by women who, for the most part, had no money of their own and were totally inexperienced in organization, and that they won their fight in about two generations, makes a story often dramatic and always worth preserving.
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Just because you're from a city ten miles outside of St. Paul. It doesn't mean you don't read magazines, or the incredible Internet, and what's going on in the world. I never, ever take a client, or women, for granted.
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I was having an argument with my stepfather, and he was like, 'Why don't you join the Marine Corps?' And I was like, 'Noooo! Well, maybe, actually... ' I went and saw the recruiter, who was like, 'Are you on the run from the cops? Because we've never had someone want to leave so fast.'
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If you become a star known for one thing, that becomes your thing, and you don't want that, on some DNA level.
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I hate the way chorus boxes sound.
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I'm not one to experiment with lip colors. I tend to go for either red or a soft pink.
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I've never been one to have to manipulate women. I always want it to be like a mutual thing, like everybody loves everybody.