LL Cool J (James Todd Smith) Quotes
Yo, play me with a handshake. Say "What's up, L.L.? Good Luck." That's all. That's all I want. I don't want you to kiss my feet. That ain't necessary. Just give me respect.
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My parents came to see me in a play at Eton when I was 16. And then, when I said I wanted to try for drama school, they knew there was enough passion there for them to be brave and back me.
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You can only learn by opening yourself up to engage with different sources of information. How can you learn something if you never see it, read it, or hear it?
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Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.
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You know when you're 14 and terrified to talk to a girl? I didn't suffer much from that. It seemed very natural to me to talk to girls.
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I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the metal.
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The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal.
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We are very luck to be women, so even if we're wearing trousers, I always wear them with some lace underwear or a very feminine bra - I like that.
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Some campaigns are not worth waging if you can't win; others have to be fought on grounds of principle regardless of the chances for success.
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There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
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Whatever notoriety Fall Out Boy used to have prevents me from having the ability to start over from the bottom again.
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Reality is never as bad as a nightmare, as the mental tortures we inflict on ourselves.
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I made a very slatternly mother, notably unkeen on housework, unaware that homes need to be cleaned now and then, and too often to be found with a cigarette in one hand and a drink in the other.
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I've always loved both writing and songwriting. The journey is fascinating to me.
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I really like Los Angeles - I had a good life out there. But the reason I choose to live in New York is because when I'm between engagements, as they say, something creative always comes up for me, like 'Julian Po,' or helping teach at NYU, or helping stage a show at Juilliard.
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There are still so many movies made starring 50 men and one woman! A white male actor should never be allowed to complain about anything. Shut up and sit in the corner. I mean, seriously!
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The international proletariat first appeared on the scene in the early Thirties of the nineteenth century, and its first great action was the French Revolution of 1848.
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The game has given me so much, and I tried to give so much back to the people who have showed me so much love day after day.
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I've always been more of a camera hog than anything, and it's just another way to get it all out!
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Don't you wish you had a job like mine? All you have to do is think up a certain number of words! Plus, you can repeat words! And they don't even have to be true!
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I don't look at our society today too much. My focus is still in the past, and part of the reason is because what I do - the wellspring of art, or what I do - l get from the blues. So I listen to the music of a particular period that I'm working on, and I think inside the music is clues to what is happening with the people.
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A leader who listens is one who is malleable and willing to refine her views and actions as she learns new information or hears a better idea.
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I have my own vocabulary. I love linguistics. That surprises people.
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If you don't treat an ingredient and its flavors with respect - if you drown it in oil, for instance - you'll spoil it.
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Yo, play me with a handshake. Say "What's up, L.L.? Good Luck." That's all. That's all I want. I don't want you to kiss my feet. That ain't necessary. Just give me respect.
