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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I'm an artist by trade and an author by necessity.
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I choose not to make a graveyard of my body for the rotting corpses of dead animals.
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Canceling my landline phone account, cutting off service to my home for good, and rendering the telephones that had long sat on tables in every room as useless as my closeted bread machine, I took the final step in a lifelong attempt to free myself from the wires that tethered me.
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Our politics at its best involves us recognizing ourselves in each other. And our politics at its worst are when we see immigrants or women or blacks or gays or Mexicans as somehow separate, apart from us.
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I think when you move past your fear and you go after your dreams wholeheartedly, you become free.
