LL Cool J (James Todd Smith) Quotes
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They're always so serious, the orchestras, you know? It's always a fun contrast of that song and the genre of music. And me.
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Privacy is not explicitly spelled out in the Constitution as freedom of speech is in the First Amendment.
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Cultures and races are mixing in a very organic way in the world, and that should be reflected in film and television.
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Kids are taking music for free all the time. They have Spotify, Pandora... The record companies aren't making the kind of music that they used to make. Artists make their money on tours, not from album sales.
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One of the banners I would put up in front of any American president and new administration is 'Do not overreact to your predecessors' policies.'
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Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
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The secret we should never let the gamemasters know is that they don't need any rules.
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I was born in New York City. But my family moved when I was still an infant. Except for a year and half when we lived in Youngstown, Ohio, I grew up in small towns in Pennsylvania. I graduated from high school in Farrell, Pennsylvania.
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Gospel music rhythms are not African in origin, although I know that's what the jazz experts say.
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But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
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Racism is unacceptable in the real world, and it's unacceptable online.
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Act because you love to act.
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Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
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I used to wear miniskirts with my GB top, and sparkly sandals, and the boys would be like: 'Oh my gosh, this girl cannot be serious.'
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Real tolerance means respecting other people even when they baffle you and you have no idea why they think what they think.
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I don't understand why people make me want to make music that's a join-the-dots thing by numbers. I find it really difficult when people say, 'Aw, you should have made a really big hip hop record, that would have been really good for you' or, 'You should have made a song like Lily Allen, that would have been so great.'
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The accepted definition of a serial killer is a person who kills at least three times with a cooling off period in between his murders.
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Reason can be used only when looking critically back.
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It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle.
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My record shows that I have put my country first, and I follow the philosophy and traditions of Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan.
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I loved my 17 years with R.E.M., but I'm ready to reflect, assess and move on to a different phase of my life. The four of us will continue our close friendship, and I look forward to hearing their future efforts as the world's biggest R.E.M. fan.
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We need to respect choices that women make.
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Nobody is perfect, but life is about choices.
