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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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 believe the reason for my early independence is sport, through which I learnt at an early stage to take care of myself and be disciplined.
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I think it's a good thing for a president or political leaders to want to put their values or their faith into action. Desmond Tutu did that in South Africa. Martin Luther King Jr. did that here. This is a good thing.
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There's also the tradition of voodoo, the Haitian magic arts, in New Orleans. And because New Orleans is below sea level, when they bury people in New Orleans, it's mostly above ground. So you have this idea that the spirits are more accessible and can access you more easily because they're not even buried.
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I'm always trying to push the envelope and go with a different hairstyle that you're not going to see on anybody else. I have a really good grade of hair, and I can do a lot of different things with it.
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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.
