LL Cool J (James Todd Smith) Quotes
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Men move through a much different process before commitment than women do.
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Every morning I wake up and thank God.
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I have always been an avid reader of chemical literature, eager for what is new.
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There's nowhere like Detroit; it's a modern necropolis: all these art deco masterpieces crumbling away.
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The states are not free, under the guise of protecting maternal health or potential life, to intimidate women into continuing pregnancies.
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I have a 60-acre farm in North Carolina, and I have a tractor and a farmhouse. As soon as I groom the land, I want to put cabins around and have a place where people can write and hang out. It'll be either that or an all-black nudist colony.
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Peoples do not defy repression and death, nor do they remain for nights on end protesting energetically, just because of merely formal matters.
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I'm not a collector. I toss things out all the time.
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Both my parents are immigrants. I've seen different struggles they've had. There's a reason you don't see me using accents. I don't do impressions of my folks. When I'm doing a crappy impression of my folks, and you're laughing, I'm thinking, 'When my parents talk to people, when they walk away do people do impressions of them? Do they laugh?'
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Age is just a number. If someone can perform at 45, who will stop that fellow from playing top-level cricket?
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We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.
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Truth never damages a cause that is just.
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Shoes make an outfit; they're like rims for a car.
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I'm an actor first and foremost, who happens to do improv. I've also done sitcoms, I've done stage.
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Marijuana is not tested for, and yet that is the big thing guys are getting in trouble with in the league. It's terrible.
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My wife attends a Presbyterian church.
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I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.
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One thing that is not to be underestimated is American culture's influence on the rest of the world.
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If you aren't taking a representative sample, you won't get a representative snapshot.
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I guess I'm in a state of becoming. Even though I've had a full career and I've been around a long time, it's like dinosaurs are coming back. It's all new. I'm having to be on my own and seeing how exciting life can be now.
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I could not do this, I realized, if I were immortal. This degree of love of life and of one another is granted, I saw for once and for ever, not to immortals, but to those who live briefly and always under the shadow of death and loss.
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Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.
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Yet better for one of my nature to have it that way than to have life a peaceful, placid flow of quiet contentment. I must have days of rushing excitement.
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I am what I am, I'm doing very well in my life, and I'm thankful to God for that.
