LL Cool J (James Todd Smith) Quotes
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The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.
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There are films like 'Interstellar' where you cannot replicate the experience of seeing it in IMAX - it's an amazing film presented in a spectacular way. It really is an experience, like going to Disneyland, and you can't replicate that by watching home videos of going to Disneyland.
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Istanbul is a vast place. There are very conservative neighbourhoods, there are places that are upper class, Westernised, consuming Western culture.
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If you have the ideas, and you're a creative person, then you don't really differentiate in how your ideas manifest themselves.
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The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.
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No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
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I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands society's care.
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I know the Russian political elite has got used to the Ukraine suffering from an inferiority complex, but I want this to disappear from our relationship.
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I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.
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Most practical jokes, I'll feel too bad for the other person so I'll stop just before the punchline.
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I don't understand why there aren't more powerful female directors. I don't have the answers, but I hope that things may start to shift and that studios will employ more women to handle strong and interesting material.
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You reach a point in your career when the weeks turn into a month or more of the phone not ringing.
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What's so special about this team is that we all have the same mentality, this sort of, 'We've been knocked down, let's get back up' mentality.
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As a boy, I had an uncle, T. G. Bond, who lived near Moreton Hampstead and who was passionately devoted to Dartmoor. He inspired me with the same love.
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I love Adele; she's a timeless, classic beauty. I think she's beautiful. She's just a real woman.
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Alanis Morissette - I love how she's not afraid to say what she wants to say. Love it or hate it, she's going to say it. And her vocals are crazy; they're amazing, and I also love how her music is really organic.
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Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.
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People ask if success changes one overnight. I am just doing my job, and I worked way too hard to get here. I didn't get it easy.
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I can run up a wall and do a back flip - that's the most impressive thing that I can do.
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Rap and spoken word have reawakened the country to poetry in itself. Texting and Twitter encourage creative uses of casual language, in ways I have celebrated widely. But we've fallen behind on savoring the formal layer of our language.
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Bond? It is a bit like saying, 'Do you want to play Superman?' Anyone would dream of it. It's one of the most coveted roles in film. I'd be honoured. But I don't know if it will actually happen. I'm just happy with the idea of being associated with it. It's nice there's a lot of good will.
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I haven't had a chance really to do a martial arts role, but I really want to. I want to act like Jackie Chan in a movie.
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There is only one solution if old age is not to be an absurd parody of our former life, and that is to go on pursuing ends that give our existence a meaning.
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I'm cold gettin' paid cause Rick said so.
