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.
Baba Kalyani
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There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
Oscar Levant
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I don't care tuppence whether I'm forced into a leadership position or not. I'd much sooner not.
E. P. Thompson
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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.
Carey Mulligan
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
Gary Larson
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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.
Karlie Kloss
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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.
Tadashi Shoji
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I quit college. I was studying architecture for about a year.
Barry Mann
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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.
M. H. Abrams
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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.
Sally Mann
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Not knowing the thing that's chasing you is a lot scarier than seeing it right in front of you.
Oren Peli
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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.
Patrick Dempsey
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I always try to start my weekend by running on the beach, which is great fun here in Barcelona.
Daniel Bruhl
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I didn't particularly like being objectified.
L'Wren Scott
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The nearest approach I have ever seen to the symmetry of ancient sculpture was among the Arab tribes of Ethiopia. Our Saxon race can supply the athlete, but not the Apollo.
Bayard Taylor
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I think American audiences like gangster movies. You know, it's part of the culture.
Vincent Cassel
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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.
Flula Borg
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The people at the top of the league think they need to rein me in so I don't become another Michael Jordan, somebody they aren't able to mold and shape and make their puppet.
Dennis Rodman
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I want people to look at me in the future and feel that there's this Asian hip-hop artist who's fresh and hot.
Kris Wu
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I'm a jeans person; I love Abercrombie. My shoe collection is composed mostly of Chucks and a few pairs of girly ones.
Lalaine Vergara-Paras
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A lot of the celebrities' kids are Jake Paulers, and so they'll run up and say, 'My dad is this person,' 'My dad is that person.' I'm, like, 'Yo, what's up bro? How are you?'
Jake Paul
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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.
LL Cool J