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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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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Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
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My job is being 'Mrs. Ronald Reagan.'
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For a man's property is not at all secure, though there be good and equitable laws to set the bounds of it, between him and his fellow subjects, if he who commands those subjects, have power to take from any private man, what part he pleases of his property, and use and dispose of it as he thinks good.
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People like to imagine that because all our mechanical equipment moves so much faster, that we are thinking faster, too.
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The people I choose as models have a quality that seems to contain the past, the present, and the future all at once. It's hard to explain. I can look at 100 people in a room but only find it in one person.
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I felt cheated by the way grown-ups told me that the future of the world was bleak when I became a teenager in the 1970s. The pollution explosion was unstoppable. Global famine was inevitable. I genuinely want the next generation, my own kids, to know that actually it's possible that the future might be better than the past.
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I think when you move past your fear and you go after your dreams wholeheartedly, you become free.
