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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Also, I have found that I really like to work in English. It's very strange because it's exactly the opposite of what I thought it would be like.
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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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On tour, it's either call ex-boyfriends or tweet a lot. You're just looking for any proof that you're not completely alone.
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It's more along the lines of raising a child: we train the system to a certain range of behaviors that we find most useful. But then we let it go, because we don't want to have to be babysitting it the whole time.
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There's something so great about being with your nephew and, when you're tired, just handing him off back to your sister.
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I think the guy who has had the better films is Will Smith. I don't know if he's a better actor than me. I don't think so. I am a rapper first. Man, I just love what I do. I am just the greatest and I can't help it. I'm sorry man.
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We overeat because there are signals and cues around us that tell us to eat. It’s simply not in our nature to pause after every bite and contemplate whether we’re full. As we eat, we unknowingly—mindlessly—look for signals or cues that we’ve had enough.
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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.
