LL Cool J (James Todd Smith) Quotes
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To be a great painter means to be a great poet: someone who transcends the limits of his language.
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Outside of hip-hop, it was in comics that I most often found the aesthetics and wisdom of my world reflected.
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To help staff recharge and think better, companies are setting aside quiet places to relax, practise yoga or even take a nap. With hi-tech giants such as Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft underlining the pitfalls of being 'always on,' firms are imposing speed limits on the information superhighway.
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I'm a total hip-hop geek. That's my favorite kind of music to listen to while getting ready.
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I was a rapper and a DJ, and if you wanted to be involved in hip-hop, you had to be involved in the sonic, the kinetic and the visual aspects. The visual was graffiti.
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I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.
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Hip-hop is really standoffish. It's really competitive and it's really about who's number one all the time. Sometimes it gets out of hand.
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I'm a huge hip-hop fan from way back in the day.
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Hip-hop was started on groups.
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We are a coalition government, and that limits our options in some ways. Privatization happens to be one such area.
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I came up in hip-hop, where people value the ability to tell it straight.
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Latinos been a part of hip-hop culture and every other culture; we've been influential in every aspect of life.
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I'd like to be a geneticist to be honest, but there are limits to what I can do now. For my dream to come true I'd have to be 20 years old again, heading off to a blue chip university.
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You can call Hanson a whole lot of things, but hip-hop isn't one of them.
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I'm a big fan of hip-hop, so it reflects in my approach.
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The mistakes we make when we try to imagine our personal futures are also lawful, regular, and systematic. They, too, have a pattern that tells us about the powers and limits of foresight in much the same way that optical illusions tell us about the powers and limits of eyesight.
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The sound system influence is undeniable in hip-hop, in jungle, drum and bass, now EDM.
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We all want to not repeat ourselves constantly, and explore the limits of our capabilities.
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Becoming a writer is not a 'career decision' like becoming a doctor or a policeman. You don't choose it so much as get chosen, and once you accept the fact that you're not fit for anything else, you have to be prepared to walk a long, hard road for the rest of your days.
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Oracle has grown and advanced because we've been consistently willing to cannibalize ourselves.
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With Ibrahim al-Koni, what I figured out was - and you'll see this in his novels - if your time is limited, make the unit of the chapters small so that you can finish one a day, at least in the first draft. Once you have the first draft it's living, and you can coax it to grow and trim it and reshape it and so on. But get that first draft. I think if I'd gone to an MFA program and learned that, it would have been money well spent. But translation has been that for me.
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Hip-hop can be limiting and I refuse to accept limits.
