LL Cool J (James Todd Smith) Quotes
I think when you move past your fear and you go after your dreams wholeheartedly, you become free.
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I've been writing music since 4th grade, and I love putting words together and expressing things in a way that you can move your head to and you can really relate to, because I have a lot to say.
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In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.
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I tend to deal with characters who are sort of at that same point of wrestling with, 'Who am I going to be as an adult? What do I believe? How am I defining myself in the context of my culture and my peer groups, my family?'
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I love PBS! I grew up on it. If I had to say which channels were good, I'd say, you got your PBS, your History Channel, your Discovery.
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My kids are free to do what ever they want. Because I only advise. I don't make them do anything.
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I think Don Cheadle has always done great work.
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Whenever I am losing, it's like, 'It's his fault'. And whenever I'm winning it's like, 'That's us'. That's the team, the people.
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Strong limits on carbon pollution will save Americans money, create jobs, improve our health, and help defuse climate change.
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I deserve attention not because of any talent, but just because of who I am.
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Anything - a destination, a person - that has some mystery around it becomes exciting and attractive.
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It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.
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Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
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I'm trying to knock the medical profession into accepting its responsibilities, and those responsibilities include assisting their patients with death.
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I can remember as a young lieutenant being sent into the DMZ in the divided Vietnam, from North Vietnam.
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No matter how many times you say Social Security is broke, the reality is that Social Security's independent revenue stream and its Trust Fund's investments maintain the program's solvency until 2037, when it may begin to fall short.
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I can't stop people from writing imaginative stories about me entering politics.
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I think I'm an okay parent, but I'd put myself in the category of a musician-who-happened-to-become-a-father. I'm definitely not a father-who-happened-to-be-a-musician.
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I have never spoken for anyone but myself.
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My children have gone to Catholic school... Part of their whole education is talking about the inner life and looking at your life, even though you're only 15 or 16 - thinking about your mortality, thinking about the value of your life, thinking about your obligations.
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I'm a huge Joe Nichols fan, and he put this song out an album called 'Real Things.' I was excited for Joe when I heard it, thinking 'that will easily be Joe Nichols' career song.' I was even more excited when they got out of that album and they never released it as a single, because then I was like, 'Now that's gonna be my career single.'
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I don't like politics. I am not aligned to any political party. I have friends in all political parties.
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I always tell people that religious institutions and political institutions should be separate. So while I'm telling people this, I myself continue with them combined. Hypocrisy!
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What a photograph shows us is how a particular thing could be seen, or could be made to look - at a specific moment, in a specific context, by a specific photographer employing specific tools.
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I think when you move past your fear and you go after your dreams wholeheartedly, you become free.
