LL Cool J (James Todd Smith) Quotes
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I don't need to be motivated by anybody. Never have.
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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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I was a kid who had asthma and bifocals and wore sweater vests.
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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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All you wanna do in life is do what you do well. That's when you're happiest.
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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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Extreme cold when it first arrives seems to generate cheerfulness and sociability. For a few hours all life's dubious problems are dropped in favor of the clear and congenial task of keeping alive.
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I think the situation in Toronto is such that there are funding organizations which make it easy for a film to raise more money than it needs and very often that works against a film.
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Be it remembered that man subsists upon the air more than upon his meat and drink; but no one can exist for an hour without a copious supply of air. The atmosphere which some breathe is contaminated and adulterated, and with its vital principles so diminished that it cannot fully decarbonize the blood, nor fully excite the nervous system.
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Hope is not a form of guarantee; it's a form of energy, and very frequently that energy is strongest in circumstances that are very dark.
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We heard moving accounts from two working miners about just what they have to face as they try to make their way to work. The sheer bravery of those men and thousands like them who kept the mining industry alive is beyond praise. 'Scabs' their former workmates call them. Scabs? They are lions!
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A man can make money but, money can't make a man.
