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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I would say the secret is to be enthusiastic about everything that comes into your life. To care, to care about people. To be excited about everything that comes close to you. I love to read. And I love to write, mostly.
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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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Use the same measure for selling that you use for purchasing.
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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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For it stirs the blood in an old man’s heart, And makes his pulses fly,To catch the thrill of a happy voice And the light of a pleasant eye.
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I grew up in the country. I am a real proud country boy, love getting back home.
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when you start to feel a little sad, anxious, or irritable it’s not the mood that does the damage but how you react to it. • the effort of trying to free yourself from a bad mood or bout of unhappiness – of working out why you’re unhappy and what you can do about it – often makes things worse. It’s like being trapped in quicksand – the more you struggle to be free, the deeper you sink.
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In essence, the optimistic style involves taking credit for successes but little blame for failures.
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My favorite Knicks moment was when we beat Indiana in Game 7 to reach the NBA Finals. We worked so hard as a team to reach that moment that it was very satisfying to beat Indiana and reach the Finals.
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How dare you ever in ya life walk past me without acknowledging their man as God.
