LL Cool J (James Todd Smith) Quotes
All great writers are schizophrenics, you know what I'm saying? 'Cause they switch up. They become the person when they write.

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Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
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There was just a lot of comedy on the TV in the house, and my parents are both very funny.
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When I was in college, I studied business because I thought I wanted to be a director and producer.
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The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.
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Everybody has to agree that the best thing we can do to start reducing the deficit in this country is to put people back to work.
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I came to acting in a very circuitous way.
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World War II was a decisive time in our history and June 6, 1944, marked the decisive moment of the war.
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Our goal definitely isn't to sell Stripe.
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I've always had mostly women come out to see me perform. That's the reason the guys show up; they know R. Kelly is going to draw the women. Most of the songs I'm singing are catering to women anyway.
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After working so hard on the court, I find that snacks help me avoid late-afternoon energy lows.
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There's a lot of activism that doesn't deal with empowerment, and you have to empower yourself in order to be relevant to any type of struggle.
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Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification.
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In my early 20s I was so miserable doing construction, I wanted something that paid money. I liked nice stuff. I liked cars and architecture, and things that cost money. I wanted to not swing a hammer, and make money... and not do stuff that was dirty. I attempted to get into comedy. I started to do stand-up, but I wasn't very good at it.
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The spiritual reality of the Indian world is very evident, very highly developed. I think it affects the life of every Indian person in one way or another.
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I think it's very important to have a public discussion about why we're denying our soldiers the ability to exercise their Second Amendment rights.
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At the end of the day, the position is just a position, a title is just a title, and those things come and go. It's really your essence and your values that are important.
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Meeting Oprah Winfrey, I cried like a baby. Meeting Steven Spielberg, I cried like a baby. Meeting Denzel Washington, I gushed like a crazy woman. If I don't get excited or star struck by someone I've been dying to meet, it's time to retire.
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Yeah - I wanna be the sister to Khaleesi in 'Game of Thrones.' I wanna be a dragon lady; that would be really fun!
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I had a moment where I left journalism, and I started getting interested in this issue and writing about it, where I felt there was a right side and a wrong side around a lot of these issues relating to education.
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There is a supply for every demand.
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So, it's a very, you know - maybe we're wrong in - you know, we go around thinking the innovator is the person who's first to kind of conceive of something. And maybe the innovation process continues down the line to the second and the third and the fourth entrant into a field.
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I'd like to say let your kids go out and play. Then I'd say you're not going to do that are you? Make your kids go out and play.
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All great writers are schizophrenics, you know what I'm saying? 'Cause they switch up. They become the person when they write.