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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I would say that the study of history is that which gives man the greatest optimism, for if man were not destined by his Maker to go on until the Kingdom of Heaven is attained, man would have been extinguished long ago by reason of all man's mistakes and frailties.
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I refuse to consign the whole male sex to the nursery. I insist on believing that some men are my equals.
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My own interest developed because I thought it was a fascinating subject and something I wanted to pursue.
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How dare you ever in ya life walk past me without acknowledging their man as God.
