LL Cool J (James Todd Smith) Quotes
When I’m alone in my room sometimes I stare at the wall, and in the back of my mind I hear my conscience call.
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I do not believe in any legacy. The past is dead and gone.
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I was a go-go dancer at the Dom on East 10th Street in NYC. This was a glittering ballroom over Stanley's Bar. 1965.
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I think it's always easy to be sympathetic to parts of the government in detail; in their concrete manifestations. Because obviously, we don't have government for no reason.
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For me, family has always come first.
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You're creating new things in movies and people are going to steal them.
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It's not about 'succeeding,' but sometimes on a film, you know you've captured something.
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There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.
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The work environment on 'Battlestar Galactica' is unbelievable, and it's something that doesn't come along very often.
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I always wanted pink hair.
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There's a lot of people who feel there's a tabloid journalist who had it coming.
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To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
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When we show up in a city, we ask, 'Where's the best restaurant? What's the best beer?' You start doing that, and you get exposed to a lot of great stuff.
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Education is at the heart of achieving your dreams.
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You know, we've got to this place, where you go to a movie for one particular surgical fix. So, it's like, I want the pulse-pounding action, or the insane falling-off-my-seat comedy, or the devastating, heart-breaking drama.
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I had written in another draft a completely different kind of fight, but they said they couldn't afford to shoot it. They needed a fight scene, though, so I was told to put a fight scene in, but not the one I had written.
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There is an important idea in psychology: The 'just world theory,' which says that it is very important for us to convince ourselves that the world is just and things happen for a reason. That there is some elemental fairness in everything, which creates the illusion of justice.
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I'm really anti-option, so computers have been my nightmare with recording. I don't want endless tracks; I want less tracks. I want decisions to be made.
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I said I wanted to strap guns on an El Camino. When I brought it up at a meeting, they said great. I realized there's no adult in the room.
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I can be an emotional eater. Of late, I have been doing that, yes. It started when I was very little. My brothers were gone on tour a lot, and I would miss them so much.
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The ability to negotiate with other people without friction and argument is the outstanding quality of all successful people.
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Hold the sadness and pain of samsara in your heart and at the same time the power and vision of the Great Eastern Sun. Then the warrior can make a proper cup of tea.
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If you want to lose weight, you must make sure your appetite for life is far bigger than your appetite for mere food.
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I'm not looking to exclude people, I'm looking to include them.
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When I’m alone in my room sometimes I stare at the wall, and in the back of my mind I hear my conscience call.
