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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I looked at my father and looked at those dry fields [in Malawi]. It was the future I couldn't accept.
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The lights of the little highway town ahead spread with their approach and then scattered like flushed prey as they entered its limits. Under the filling-station sheds, swirling insects clouded the naked bulbs. The stores were closed; the depot dark.
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Wisdom adorneth riches and casteth a shadow over poverty.
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Hip-hop can be limiting and I refuse to accept limits.
