LL Cool J (James Todd Smith) Quotes
Dreams don't have deadlines. I'm thinking of doing bigger and better things and having more fun with it.
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I usually get all my stress and anger out at the gym. But when I get out, I'm kind of a pleasant person - really.
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The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.
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I just try to keep it simple, not let too many outside things influence me.
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While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.
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At the beginning of a new project, often before I do any actual writing, I collect photos, quotes, song lyrics, and even objects that relate to the characters or the world I'm creating.
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I think comedy is one of the hardest things to do.
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Unlike fashion, art isn't applied. It doesn't have to serve anybody. It doesn't have to be there for any other reason than to give an impression of what the world is about.
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I want to be frozen on the hope that they'll find whatever I died of and bring me back.
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One has to be fully committed to one's career. Otherwise, there's no point.
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Midi is my hobby.
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Harold Lloyd was not a comedian. But he was the finest actor to play a comedian that I ever saw.
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Incidentally, our railroad facilities are under video surveillance by the federal police. However, the federal and state governments will have to determine whether video surveillance shouldn't be significantly expanded to a certain degree.
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I think an encore is perfectly acceptable, but I find it so weird when people do two or three.
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I live in Italy. I visit my family in Switzerland.
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Granted, I've changed internally as I've gotten older - I take it easy, I know when to stop and take care of myself, I laugh much more and with my belly and soul - but this comes from the confidence and acceptance that comes with maturity.
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I am the luckiest novelist in the world. I was a first-time novelist who wasn't awash in rejection slips, whose manuscript didn't disappear in slush piles. I have had a wonderful time.
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If you could stay at this stage - you're 17, and you're always going to be in love with your first love - that's probably attractive.
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I think there needs to be a way to allow people to become educated if they've paid taxes, they've been here a long time. And I think, actually, we need to think about young people are not making the decision on whether to come here.
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The discipline required for athletics carried through to writing. You call it obsession. I call it discipline. By the way, I see nothing wrong with that.
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It's easy to see why pitchers respect McGwire. If you hit behind him, they're saying that they don't respect you. You have to change their thinking.
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Kerry Washington is the most fun: she cracks me up! Everyone talks about how drop-dead gorgeous, smart, and fashionable she is, and she is all of that, but I must add she's the hugest goofball. She has the best sense of humor and lightheartedness that makes coming into work every day so delightful.
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Liberty sets the mind free, fosters independence and unorthodox thinking and ideas. But it does not offer instant prosperity or happiness and wealth to everyone. This is something that politicians in particular must keep in mind.
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It is a good rule never to see or talk to the man whose words have wrung your heart, or helped it, just as it is wise not to look down too closely at the luminous glow which sometimes shines on your path on a summer night, if you would not see the ugly worm below.
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Dreams don't have deadlines. I'm thinking of doing bigger and better things and having more fun with it.
