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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A kite needs to be tied down in order to fly. I learned how important restrictions can sometimes be in order to experience freedom.
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I do think that even with entertainment and telling stories, people in the entertainment industry have such a beautiful position in the world to speak about things that they're passionate about in a way that can grab people more than just sitting and telling someone about something, because you can show it visually.
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I do worry about young people in the business who have experienced a lot of success and are punted around doing those manic publicity trails, when you don't really know who you are yet.
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As we grow in our consciousness, there will be more compassion and more love, and then the barriers between people, between religions, between nations will begin to fall. Yes, we have to beat down the separateness.
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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.
