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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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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When I am going out, I am in ponytail, jeans, tees. I am just like any girl-next-door. Beauty is not external; it's internal. When you are a happy soul, you would be beautiful any time.
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I do speak Mandarin, and I also relate to the hunger that China has for culture and architecture and style.
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Nothing could be as hard as middle school.
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Who knows but that England may revive in New South Wales when it has sunk in Europe.
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...and the cries of the birds and the uproar of the monkeys became more and more remote, and the world became eternally sad. The men on the expedition felt overwhelmed by their most ancient memories in that paradise of dampness and silence, going back to before original sin, as their boots sank into pools of steaming oil and their machetes destroyed bloody lilies and golden salamanders.
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Every song is like a reflection of some emotions and words that we wanted to say to someone else, or some currents of life that went through our brains.
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Nobody is perfect, but life is about choices.
