LL Cool J (James Todd Smith) Quotes

At fourteen, I started sending out demo tapes.

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• I was a very focused kid. I always had this crazy lifestyle... billions of jobs, two hours of gymnastics every day, handball, anything with a ball, really. I must have had ADHD or something. I was very energetic, and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • School
  • High
  • Small

• So many able historians have worked over seventeenth-century New England that one would think there was little left to be learned from the people who lived there - fewer than 100,000 at the end of the century. Seldom, apart perhaps from the Greeks and Romans, have so few been studied by so many.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • People
  • Think
  • End

• I think the kids today need to hear more about morals and values.

  

  Isaac Hayes
  • Kids
  • Think
  • Today

• America's presidents tend to die young. Maybe it is in the nature of the men who reach such heights, or of the job once they attain it.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Men
  • Job
  • America

• I sit there pouring out my woes year after year, coming up with one enormity after another about my mother and the way she let me down; but it doesn't make me any the less fearful.

  

  Lars von Trier
  • Up
  • She
  • Mother

• We were playing a small club in San Diego and the power had gone out in the building. Eddie had a lighter and kept us lit backstage. We became very good friends and spent a lot of time together including hearing Eddie sing in some of the bands he was in at the time.

  

  Jack Irons Pearl Jam
  • Time
  • Good
  • Power

• Of the horse I will say nothing because I know the times.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Horse

• 'True Blood' differs from 'Six Feet Under' in that there are way more characters and plot-lines, but fundamentally it's still about the characters and their emotions.

  

  Alan Ball
  • True

• In the end, someone is depending on me to show up on their set looking a specific way, whether that's 40 pounds overweight or 40 pounds underweight - or looking like a stripper.

  

  Matt Bomer
  • Up

• It's incredibly hard to get meaningful work done when your workday has been shredded into work moments.

  

  Jason Fried
  • Work
  • Done
  • Moments

• I think there's an ability to make an immigration system that works.

  

  Kevin McCarthy
  • Immigration

• It was in Cardiff, and the cast was 60 per cent Welsh-speaking. It's the first time I've walked into a rehearsal room speaking my mother tongue, which in itself was a breath of fresh clean air from the Welsh mountains. Singing Hans Sachs is always a milestone, but I was happy to be part of such an achievement, not personally but as a company.

  

  Bryn Terfel
  • Time
  • Happy
  • Mother

• What is it that unites, on the left of British politics, George Orwell, Billy Bragg, Gordon Brown and myself? An understanding that identity and a sense of belonging need to be linked to our commitment to nationhood and a modern form of patriotism.

  

  David Blunkett
  • Understanding
  • Identity
  • Commitment

• Jam Cruise is actually a comfortable place for me. My jamming skills and my improvisational skills have improved immensely as I've gone more solo, because I've had this opportunity.

  

  John Oates Daryl Hall & John Oates
  • Opportunity

• My hair routine is to let someone else do it.

  

  Aja Naomi King
  • Hair

• If you want to be an anthropologist, you need to study physical anthropology specialized in bones. If you want to be a forensic chemist, get a degree in chemistry. Do you want to do DNA work? Get a degree in microbiology. And do well. Study hard and go to graduate school.

  

  Kathy Reichs
  • Work
  • School
  • Study

• Temptation is like a knife, that may either cut the meat or the throat of a man; it may be his food or his poison, his exercise or his destruction.

  

  John Owen
  • May
  • Food
  • Exercise

• I don't really have a lot of fun playing just straight good guys. It's not my thing. It's like Tom Hanks territory.

  

  Denis Leary
  • Good
  • Fun

• Time to live, time to lie, time to laugh, and time to die. Take it easy baby. Take it as it comes.

  

  Jim Morrison The Doors
  • Time
  • Live
  • Laugh

• I listened to a lot of tapes of British theatre actresses and tried to learn from them. As Americans, we don't have such a gift with language.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Language
  • Theatre
  • Actresses

• Many of my characters first came through to me as voices. That's why I use a tape recorder.

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • Character
  • Firsts
  • Tape

• Tape is wonderful at preserving evidence - fingerprints, hairs, .fibers. Tape preserves this, especially on the sticky side, even if the body's been out there for a year.

  

  Michael Baden
  • Year
  • Evidence
  • Tape

• What kind of expression is this - "punishing Israel"? Are we a vassal state of yours? Are we a banana republic? Are we youths of fourteen who, if they don't behave properly, are slapped across the fingers? Let me tell you who this government is composed of. It is composed of people whose lives were spent in resistance, in fighting and in suffering. You will not frighten us with "punishments." He who threatens us will find us deaf to his threats. We are only prepared to listen to rational arguments. You have no right to "punish" Israel - and I protest at the very use of this term.

  

  Menachem Begin
  • Government
  • Argument
  • Israel

• At fourteen, I started sending out demo tapes.

  

  LL Cool J
  • Tape
  • Fourteen
  • Demos