LL Cool J (James Todd Smith) Quotes
I just chill. I don't stand outside too much. I do what I gotta do and chill, man, know what I'm saying? That's all. It's cool.
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Plastic surgery is a postmodern veil.
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For me, songwriting starts with a melody. When a musician plays a chord progression, either the words and vocal melody come to me, or they don't. That's how I determine who to write with. It works, or it doesn't.
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It is part of my responsibility as a bridge builder to speak the truth about what's great about America, what we've done right, and what our less glorious moments. And many people feel that the Iraq adventure, for example, has been one of our less glorious moments.
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I would be very happy doing movies. I love to work and I think I'm a little different.
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Novelty is always welcome but talking pictures are just a fad.
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But I also think that the more you reason collectively about what the project should be at the beginning of the process, the more you can improvise later.
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Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.
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Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?
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When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.
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I'm under five feet; I'm very small, 4'11 1/2.
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I live with my family on the top of a hill in the country, and during the days, my house is quiet, save for the occasional excitement of the FedEx truck heading up the driveway. I write.
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I've learned about ice water in the morning - when you wake up tired, or you're jet lagged and you've been flying and your skin is dry, or you have puffy eyes - the ice water really helps cool the face down and helps circulation.
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Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.
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When you go all over the world for work, your dream vacation is your bedroom.
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I have never appreciated a quiet moment with a friend as much, a quiet moment with a book and I think part of that is my obsession with being older and time going faster and it's become increasingly sweeter for me.
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Even though I had been boxing, I had no idea I could beat somebody in the ring. And I had no idea I could really take a punch. When I realized that, I really started taking off.
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The gamble of literature is that I make the best work I can; the most truthful, the most representative of how I see things. I try and do that, and then I put it out there and say to you, 'What do you think?' I hope that you think well of it, obviously.
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I have never been attracted to any kind of violence.
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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I think it's a human tendency that's been around for a while to try to be as good as possible to prove your worth.
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As she sat in the low-backed carThe man at the turn-pike barNever asked for the tollBut just rubbed his auld pollAnd looked after the low-backed car.
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The years I spent paying my dues are in the background, and so are my concerns about whether my performance is good or bad.
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I wish to establish some sort of system not guided by chance but by some sort of definite and exact principle.
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I just chill. I don't stand outside too much. I do what I gotta do and chill, man, know what I'm saying? That's all. It's cool.
