LL Cool J (James Todd Smith) Quotes
That's one of the good things about music. You get to do it live, where you can touch the people and interact with them.
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As with the onset of sudden celebrity, for the newly rich, the world often becomes a darker, narrower, less generous place; a paradox that elicits scant sympathy, but is nonetheless true.
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I don't know what it's like in the U.S. but immigrants in the U.K. do the jobs the citizens won't do.
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I never was good at learning things. I did just enough work to pass. In my opinion it would have been wrong to do more than was just sufficient, so I worked as little as possible.
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A book is not an example of 'women's writing' simply because it is written by a woman. Writing may become 'women's writing' when it could not have been written by a man.
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I had eleven varsity letters. I loved basketball the best, but cross-country is a little more under your control.
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I identified with white culture, and I wanted to fit in. I didn't identify with black culture. Like, I didn't like Tyler Perry movies, and I wasn't into hip-hop music. I liked Neil Young.
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Tyrannies not only want to control your mind and thoughts but your flesh as well.
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Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.
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It's really hard for kids nowadays: you can get a decent education, but there are no jobs out there. You worry about how they are ever going to afford to live anywhere.
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Sometimes you have to laugh about what gets published; sometimes it's annoying, but in general I don't care.
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Experimenting with different sounds is great, but when it comes down to it, you're still playing a guitar.
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When you go all over the world for work, your dream vacation is your bedroom.
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Turning 18 is a big deal.
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When you're with your club team, every week you have a performance to judge. But when you're with the national team, it's a little different because you might not play for three or four months at a time. Things change constantly.
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As soldiers in Israel's army, one of the most grueling training regimens we had to endure was a long march while carrying a comrade on a stretcher.
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The logical thing is to implement the Arab Defense Agreement.
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I think that if you haven't been to the grocery store in a really long time, it's really easy to get very out of touch.
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When you're rich you don't write checks.
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We have no quarrel with a policy that seeks to support human rights.
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I used to hitchhike a lot. I'd come home on the train from New York, and there'd be no cabs, but people would pick me right up and take me to my door because they recognised me. It was like a car service. I never really had a bad experience hitchhiking.
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It isn't the thing you do, dear, it's the thing you leave undone which gives you a bit of heartache at the setting at the setting of the sun.
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A feeling for history is almost an essential for writing and appreciating good science fiction, for sensing the connections between the past and future that run through our present.
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Everyone in New York is very self-involved. They're focused on themselves. Like, walking down the street, people are just in their own zone.
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That's one of the good things about music. You get to do it live, where you can touch the people and interact with them.
