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 just think it looks so cool when a woman has a dirty martini. She looks so powerful.
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I often say poetry was my first love.
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Constantly scanning the world for the negative comes with a great cost. It undercuts our creativity, raises our stress levels, and lowers our motivation and ability to accomplish goals.
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I'm continuing to work hard, not without periods of discouragement, but my strength comes back again.
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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.
