LL Cool J (James Todd Smith) Quotes

Every little boy wanna pick up the mic, And try to run with the big boys and live up to the real hype. But that's like pickin up a ball, playin with Mike, Swingin at Ken Griffey or challengin' Roy to a fight.

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• When I was 11, I realised that I did not have to live the life my mother had: school, marriage, children, apartment, summer house.

  

  Maj Sjowall
  • Life
  • Live
  • Children

• After one Olympics, if we invest in sports and say we will get a gold medal in the next Olympic, it doesn't work like that in sports. How it works is that you provide the infrastructure, provide education about nutrition and health.

  

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni
  • Work
  • Education
  • Health

• I guess I'd love to be surprised by something I had never thought of.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Thought
  • Surprised
  • Guess

• Unfortunately, we have seen terrorist groups use social media to spread hateful propaganda, to recruit members, and to incite violence with alarming effectiveness.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Violence
  • Social Media

• It is only human supremacy, which is as unacceptable as racism and sexism, that makes us afraid of being more inclusive.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Human
  • Afraid
  • Racism

• I think being called a cat lady is a compliment. It means you have adopted a tiny little maniac into your life.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Life
  • Think
  • Cat

• I miss driving to Goodison Park. I miss just the positive energy of the fans walking into the stadium and how much they care about that club and the team. And I miss the players a lot.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Energy
  • Team
  • Positive

• I do believe that in order to be a successful negotiator that as a diplomat, you have to be able to put yourself into the other person's shoes. Unless you can understand what is motivating them, you are never going to be able to figure out how to solve a particular problem.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Believe
  • Yourself
  • Shoes

• More compassionate mind, more sense of concern for other's well-being, is source of happiness.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Mind
  • Happiness
  • Wellbeing

• I love New York. I'm working on Broadway, and it's a great way for me to get my feet wet in acting and a great way to season yourself as a performer.

  

  Taylor Hicks
  • Great
  • Love
  • Yourself

• Man is a mind betrayed, not served, by his organs.

  

  Edmond de Goncourt
  • Mind
  • Man
  • Organs

• The Irish job was something that had to be sorted out.

  

  Jack Charlton
  • Job
  • Something
  • Irish

• Madrid is not as big as London, but it is true when you are coming from a big city like Madrid, nothing is going to surprise you, and I am very happy to move to a city like London. It is a big city, and you can do everything you want with the respect that the English people always have.

  

  Fernando Torres
  • People
  • True
  • Happy

• Move your lymph system. Lymph is like a sewage system that carries all of the toxins out of your body.

  

  Valentina Zelyaeva
  • Like
  • Body
  • Your Body

• The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Imagination
  • Spirit
  • Creates

• Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from.

  

  Mae West
  • Man
  • Protect
  • Wants

• Destiny has always been something that interested me as a subject, but not in a fatalistic way because I believe that one can transform destiny through self-knowledge.

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • Believe
  • Knowledge
  • Always

• I'm a big Michael Lewis fan. That said, my favorite Lewis book was 'The Blind Side.'

  

  Bart Chilton
  • Book
  • Said
  • Blind

• Kids that I went to school with didn't know how to interact with black people like that. There were only, like, three or four black kids in the class.

  

  Big Sean
  • People
  • School
  • Kids

• Who wouldn't want to date Salman?

  

  Amy Jackson

• Communion was born out of shared frustration in 2006. We felt that although the likes of MySpace and YouTube opened up the playing field for songwriters online, people's discovery of these new artists was only skin deep.

  

  Ben Lovett Mumford & Sons
  • People
  • Up
  • Deep

• My agent said, 'Jerry, Dancing With the Stars - they want you on there.' I said, 'Ain't no way. I'm not going to do that.' Then he came back to me again, and he kept putting pressure on me. I said, 'All right, I'll give it a try.'

  

  Jerry Rice

• The Taliban is resilient.

  

  Leon Panetta

• Every little boy wanna pick up the mic, And try to run with the big boys and live up to the real hype. But that's like pickin up a ball, playin with Mike, Swingin at Ken Griffey or challengin' Roy to a fight.

  

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