LL Cool J (James Todd Smith) Quotes

I just look at the high and bright side of things

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• I think people are always able to achieve more than they think they can. While that's cliche, I don't know if managers think about that enough. You have to set your sights extremely high.

  

  Aaron Levie
  • People
  • High
  • Know

• I worked as a head cook at courthouses and high schools. I left it behind when I started getting into my music real heavy.

  

  Flavor Flav
  • Music
  • Real
  • High

• Certainly by the time I was in seventh grade, I knew I had to have a long education if I wanted to become an astronomer, but I figured I'd try it, and if I didn't get far enough, I could always end up teaching in high school or math or physics.

  

  Nancy Roman
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• I played the trumpet for nine years, and then I joined the choir after that, and then I was in musicals in high school.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • School
  • High
  • High School

• Black-and-white always looks modern, whatever that word means.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Black
  • Looks
  • Black-and-white

• With a lot of help from my high school teachers, I went to college and became a medical tech at a clinic outside Kansas City.

  

  Karolyn Grimes
  • School
  • Help
  • High

• To be honest, before I joined the industry, I knew very little about the fashion world, and I hardly knew any name brands. Probably because the price tags were a little too high, and home girl needed to work.

  

  Halima Aden
  • World
  • Work
  • Home

• Girls pour their insecurities into their looks.

  

  Orla Brady
  • Looks
  • Insecurities
  • Pour

• My own tastes happen to be in tune with what the public wants. I think that's the reason my batting average is so high, not because I've discovered some brilliant formula.

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
  • High
  • Think
  • Reason

• I think your teenage years define your musical roots forever. You're always looking for a theme for your high school years.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • School
  • High
  • Forever

• I was attending the University of Alberta. I was going to be a high school teacher, like my parents. I failed - no, I didn't fail a class, I just barely passed. I really didn't try. It was Canadian history, through the plays of the time. My God, those were boring plays.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Time
  • God
  • School

• The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • History
  • High
  • Think

• The American Dream is that any man or woman, despite of his or her background, can change their circumstances and rise as high as they are willing to work.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Work
  • American
  • High

• My son, O'Shea. He looks like me, and he can rhyme.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Me
  • Like
  • Son

• My freshman year at Harrison High School, I saw a journalism class where students were putting out a weekly newspaper. It touched a responsive chord in me.

  

  Irv Kupcinet
  • School
  • High
  • Year

• By virtue of our private property society, we have disconnected individuals from the land. We have put them in high rises and asked them to live their lives in urban settings, disconnected from the land.

  

  Adam Dell
  • Live
  • High
  • Society

• Narrativity presumes a special taste for plot. And this taste for plot was always very present in the Anglo-Saxon countries and that explains their high quality of detective novels.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • High
  • Quality
  • Present

• I was very energetic and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • School
  • High
  • Small

• As a chef and father, it kills me that children are fed processed foods, fast food clones, foods loaded with preservatives and high-fructose corn syrup.

  

  Jose Andres
  • Children
  • High
  • Father

• I look at Starbucks, Howard Schultz has made many brilliant decisions, and one of the things that they did was they invented the third space. It's not work, it's not home. That's one of the engines of its spread. But at the same time he was doing that, he bet the farm to open more and more stores in any given town, and making it ubiquitous made it much easier to say to your friend, I'll meet you at Starbucks.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Home
  • Decision
  • Looks

• Sometimes there is more exploration in the character for a villain.

  

  Chris Hemsworth
  • Character

• I would have liked to be a nerd. I didn't even make it to that.

  

  Lloyd Blankfein
  • Nerd

• We are all saying no blank check to China, ... We have to be very clear to (Congress) about how important their vote is going to be.

  

  Linda Chavez
  • Important
  • Vote
  • Congress

• I just look at the high and bright side of things

  

  LL Cool J
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