LL Cool J (James Todd Smith) Quotes
Do what you love; you'll be better at it. It sounds pretty simple, but you'd be surprised how many people don't get this one right away.
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When you're a child, it's easy to see school as the worst thing in the world. It's only later in life you realise what a wonderful time it was. Looking back, I can't believe I even wanted to leave.
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I have an ambition to write a great book, but that's really a competition with myself. I've noticed that a lot of young writers, people in all media, want to be famous but they don't really want to do anything. I can't think of anything less worth striving for than fame.
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I'm a championship handball player. I'm a championship softball and baseball player. I used to be an extremely talented center in high school in football. I also dabbled in lacrosse and soccer. I'm really good at billiards, darts, shuffleboard.
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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I didn't have a long-term plan or goal. If there would have been a road map showing me the way to my dreams becoming reality, I might have given it a second thought.
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Exposure to a diversity of disciplines has been exceptionally helpful to me.
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I love speaking at schools. That's always my favorite because I wish I'd had someone who was like me come speak at my school.
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It's good to have a leader, otherwise we argue too much.
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Never judge a person if you don't know him.
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I just respect Kanye as an artist.
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I know people think that a lot of sports stars are a little bit up themselves, but they all have their heroes, too.
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I'd like to give people leaden boots in galleries, so they'd be a bit slower in front of my paintings. And that's because I spend so much time looking at them. I can look at them a long, long time without getting bored. I disappear.
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I had my moments when I got very frightened that I would not recover.
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I'm an Indian-origin painter. I will remain so to my last breath.
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Even the most embarrassing mishap can be spun into comedic gold.
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Happiness is a mysterious concept. It seems to work best as futurity: at that point I will be happy, et cetera. I feel like I experience small pieces of joy day to day.
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My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
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The more I push myself to really live and really experience things and step outside of my comfort zone, the more the songs are allowed to flow.
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Anything that is non-violent is OK with me.
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People get passionate about a song. It's been my experience if you put out radio candy, something commercial, it doesn't sell records.
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We're at peak oil, peak water, peak resources, and so either we figure it out and let science lead or we head down a very bad, dark trail to where a lot of people aren't going to make it.
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It’s hard for everyone isn’t it? Anyone who says it’s easy is a liar. There’s this huge divide between me and Alex right now because I feel like we’re living in such different worlds, I don’t know what to talk about with him anymore. And we used to be able to talk all night. He phones once a week and I listen to what he’s been up to during the week and try to bite my tongue every time I go into another Katie story. Truth is I have nothing other to talk about but her and I know it bores people. I think I used to be interesting once upon a time.
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I'm not - I'm not going to define people by labels: who's a real Republican, who's not a real Republican.
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Do what you love; you'll be better at it. It sounds pretty simple, but you'd be surprised how many people don't get this one right away.
