LL Cool J (James Todd Smith) Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I'm as radical as libertarians come.
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Don't manage - lead change before you have to.
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I hadn't focused on mechanics since I signed professionally.
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What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.
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People who matter are most aware that everyone else does too.
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I could pose in fashion commercials as a high society star but politics is a new way of life.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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The day you stop learning and creating must be the most boring day.
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Before you begin designing or buying anything, you need to get real and ask yourself: What do you really want to use this room for? What do you want to do in this room but can't now?
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I have worked for three decades as a staunch advocate of building a 'big tent' party that includes both pro-choice and pro-life Republicans.
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I've never rejected the world I came from. To be rejected by it is horrible.
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The only competition worthy of a wise man is with himself.
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I'm reading today because of 'Encyclopedia Brown.'
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I can't deal with someone flashy. That's so not me.
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You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer.
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While I am not saying Facebook cannot be a wonderland for marketers, I am still waiting to see the proof of it, and so should every reporter.
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At school I had only admirers; I had no friends.
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The extras are a nice bonus feature, but the main incentive is the musical experience.
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Let silence be your general rule; or say only what is necessary and in few words.
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Life is about being present. Sometimes your home will demand more attention, and you should be there. Sometimes your work is more demanding. But the beautiful thing when you create your life's work is that it always feels like you're on a mission.
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I did not write half of what I saw, for I knew I would not be believed.
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Being a correspondent at the Vietnam war for me was about exposing myself to danger but it wasn't completely self-serving. I felt that there were these dark places of the earth, were dark things were happening and people should know about them. Call it my moral obligation to go and see them and report them.
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Race is used, by all of us, in the most manipulative ways, is often force-fit and reduced to something it isn't, to something that gives us a sense of comfort, a false one. Many of us thought - needed to feel - the whole business was 'settled.' But it's not, never has been. Laws have only taken us so far.
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A man can make money but, money can't make a man.
