LL Cool J (James Todd Smith) Quotes
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One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.
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Phrases that have historical significance or become headlines don't just magically appear in the moment. They are mindfully planned.
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In international relations, you don't base your work on hope.
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I want to toy around with producing a Broadway show.
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I'm just there to do interviews and stuff, because we have about 40 media people there, so it's a very, very busy week. But that's the only time. I did marry, I think on one show, about 25 couples in Acapulco Bay once, but that was all just for kicks.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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I played with Michy for Belgium. He is still young; he can finish and is very good. He just needs to adapt to English football, and he will. He is intelligent and a good player.
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I have an appetite to always learn.
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I'd like to imagine that in order to beat me a person would have to play almost perfect tennis.
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Guys like me don't necessarily progress very far, which is fine.
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The more walking-around money I have, the less I walk around.
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If I can't get a mental image from the song, I won't sing it.
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I don't really see any barrier between teenage fiction and adult literature.
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My father's peripatetic career also gave me critical perspective when it came to my own career choices.
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And the success of the union movement, historically, has always been to benefit all working men and women - not just people who belong to the union.
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I would have been completely brainwashed by this lopsided and racist view of the world if it weren't for my father. He was a deep thinker and an irrepressible problem solver. He was a Black Socrates, asking why and then spoiling ready-made replies.
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Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.
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Yeah, I like to have fun - I think that's a good way to live. I think you're better at your job if you like it.
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My life has always somehow been played out in a minor key, unresolved. Art somehow resolves things for me.
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I've literally, in my entire life I've had two guys come up to me and ask me out. Other than that I have had to go and try to like spend time with them, or sort of start the conversation, basically like spell it out in a Sharpie, like, you know?
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I am down mentally. I can't understand how it happened and who is to blame? I don't know why the ground was rolled before the final which may have resulted in losing key players like Hemanta and Zahid due to the hardness of the pitch.
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If you want to say you got to take a woman out to a fancy restaurant, I write songs about hey I'm not taking you to a fancy restaurant, I wanna take you to McDonald's.
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How dare you ever in ya life walk past me without acknowledging their man as God.
