LL Cool J (James Todd Smith) Quotes
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I would like all French children to have unlimited opportunities opened up for them as French minister of education.
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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I consider music to be storytelling, melody and rhythm. A lot of hip-hop has broken music down. There are no instruments and no songwriting. So you're left with just storytelling and rhythm. And the storytelling can be so braggadocious, you're just left with rhythm.
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I still remember my first Giacometti exhibition, and going back to the museum every day, whenever I could, to look again and again at these long, thin stick figures, so beautiful, so graceful. That, I think, was the moment I became really obsessed by art.
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As the ancient commander addressed his soldiers before battle, so should the moralist speak to men in the struggle of the era.
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In order to raise money from somebody, you have to understand who is this person, not to deceive them but to understand them. What would be their motives for contributing money? Why do these people contribute money to some places, but not to others? That's attunement - treating everybody well, but not treating everybody the same.
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I put my friends and family first. I'm really just a normal thirteen-year-old girl who has a different hobby than most girls my age. Acting is kind of an extracurricular activity.
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The success of 'The Shadow of the Wind' made me very happy, but it did not change my perspective or the way I was.
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You have to be willing to ask questions that almost no one else would ask.
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A lot of things and a lot of money is involved in a movie. It is very upsetting when a movie doesn't fare well at the box-office.
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You have to really prove yourself to young people, and if your answer is clear and consistent and loving - even if it's angry and disappointed - what's important is that you're being real and honest and not going anywhere.
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I believe in books that do not go to a ready-made public. I'm looking for readers I would like to make. To win them, to create readers rather than to give something that readers are expecting. That would bore me to death.
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Time stays, we go.
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I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.
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I see you're a man with ideals. I better be going before you've still got them.
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I have to say that getting to tackle Maria in 'The Sound of Music' at Carnegie Hall was surreal. When I heard my voice, it was all I could do to keep myself from doing a British accent and sound like Julie Andrews!
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When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.
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I don't know, the word 'famous' just sounds really weird to me, because I'm just me.
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My father was a screenwriter, but he was also a novelist.
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There are no large-scale original musicals being made right now. They're all Broadway adaptations and jukebox musicals or catalog musicals, and they just don't interest me as much.
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For victory in life, we've got to keep focused on the goal, and the goal is Heaven.
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I've always just felt a little out of place. I still feel out of place in San Francisco. It's this place where everything is going great, and everyone feels super optimistic about the world. It's a little different about how I grew up.
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France is no longer herself when she is folded in on herself, tormented by ignorance and intolerance. The country would plunge into decline if it refused to be itself, if it was afraid of the future, afraid of the world.
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Conquering the world with words, leading the children like herds.
