LL Cool J (James Todd Smith) Quotes
Hip-hop's always reached out to kids. If you look at the last 10 big albums it might seem ironic. But when I look at the history of this music it's always had a lot of positivity.
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I am sick and tired of the process where everybody tells you that Indian companies don't have the technology and capability. We need to put money where our mouth is and make things happen, and that is what we are trying to do.
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There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
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I don't care tuppence whether I'm forced into a leadership position or not. I'd much sooner not.
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I never get recognised here in London, which I like. Once a year, someone comes up to me and asks if I am 'so-and-so's niece' because they think they recognise me from somewhere. I like that.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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Whenever I have even a spare second, I'm in the kitchen whipping up a batch of cookies. I make a mean batch of chocolate chippers.
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When I was young, about 18 or 19, I read all the Dostoyevsky novels, which made me want to go to St. Petersburg. So I went, and I was so inspired.
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I quit college. I was studying architecture for about a year.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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When I left office in 1979, I was about the only one who had really left public office on my own.
Olusegun Obasanjo -
I have no animus toward digital, though I still pretty much take everything on a silver-based negative, either a wet plate or just regular silver 8x10. But I've started messing a little bit with scanning the negative and then reworking it just slightly.
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Fame is a delicate and dangerous creature; I saw people who didn't honor it, who refused to take responsibility for it, get destroyed by it. I also saw that stardom in and of itself was empty.
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I always try to start my weekend by running on the beach, which is great fun here in Barcelona.
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I didn't particularly like being objectified.
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I think American audiences like gangster movies. You know, it's part of the culture.
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I wrote a techno song about the four things I love in Germany to make myself happy, which are my grandfather, my two poodle pets, bread, and a strange but delicious Turkish dish called Doener Kebab.
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I've always felt a spiritual connection with acting. And I felt whole when I was onstage.
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I don't know if this classifies as a video game, but I have a terrible obsession with Angry Birds.
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I don't actually go out and pursue a route that will fit me best, it's just that something comes to me and I enjoy it and want to be a part of it.
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Funding has not kept pace with demand for expanded lanes and well-maintained roadways.
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People will tell you most of the story… and I’ve learned that the part they neglect to tell you is often the most important part. People hide the truth because they’re afraid.
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People in their forties, fifties, and onward enjoy the whole world of books in a different way than the Internet-age kids do.
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Our family story here is one that we're proud of, and that is that, as the ninth of 10 kids in our family, I was the first who, right out of high school, was able to go to four-year college... it was a big moment in our family's life.
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Hip-hop's always reached out to kids. If you look at the last 10 big albums it might seem ironic. But when I look at the history of this music it's always had a lot of positivity.
