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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It is time for Hillary Clinton to permanently retire.
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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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In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.
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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 used to link up boom boxes, record one take, play it into another boom box then play all that back into the other one until I had six tracks. It was unlistenable!
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I've always given presidents the benefit of the doubt on their nominees.
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Capitalism is war; socialism is peace.
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Art has to be a kind of confession. I don't mean a true confession in the sense of that dreary magazine. The effort it seems to me, is: if you can examine and face your life, you can discover the terms with which you are connected to other lives, and they can discover them, too - the terms with which they are connected to other people.
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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.
