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

  

  Isaac Hayes
  • Kids
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• 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
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• 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
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• 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
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  • 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
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  • Done
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• 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
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• 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
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• 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
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• 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
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  • 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
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• I am a first-time director given an opportunity to pursue an artistic ambition I would not likely have the chance to elsewhere. The budget is excruciatingly tight, I am regularly abused and I expect to be fired sometime before we shoot. It's nice to see that, at Miramax, continuity has been maintained.

  

  Ben Affleck
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  • Opportunity
  • Nice

• Like so many of our people, we have now had a personal experience of German barbarity which only strengthens the resolution of all of us to fight through to final victory.

  

  George VI
  • People
  • World
  • War

• I started making hip-hop music when I was 11, and pretty much since then I've just been honing that craft, the craft of arranging a song and producing a beat. It's a task-heavy role, but at this point I really enjoy it and it allows me to convey exactly what I'm trying to get across in a song.

  

  Alexander Spit
  • Song
  • Started
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• Fourteen-year-old, why must you giggle and dote, Fourteen-year-old, why are you such a goat? I'm fourteen years old, that is the reason, I giggle and dote in season.

  

  Stevie Smith
  • Reason
  • Adolescence
  • Goats

• At fourteen, I started sending out demo tapes.

  

  LL Cool J
  • Tape
  • Fourteen
  • Demos