LL Cool J (James Todd Smith) Quotes
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I loved every place I lived and traveled. London, Paris, Rome, Venice. I fell hard for Central America and Mexico. In each country, I had fantasies that I could live there.
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Music is art, and once you become an artist, you need to learn how to accept criticism.
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Here he tells us that the new birth is first of all 'not of blood'. You don't get it through the blood stream, through heredity. Your parents can give you much, but they cannot give you this.
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I'm very proud to be a woman - you're part of a tribe. Automatically, you feel connected to another woman when you meet them. That's really special.
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Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.
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A woman going out with a younger man feels like the last taboo.
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Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.
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The life of an actor is never one to get comfortable.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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You know, I've sold a lot of bad movies in my time.
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I don't have business with any politicians.
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England is a nation of shopkeepers.
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The essence of architecture is form and space, and light is the essential element to the key to architectural design, probably more important than anything. Technology and materials are secondary.
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You don't want people thinking you're a cheat just because you're really fast and have broken the world record by a second.
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Whenever I received too much praise, it just didn't feel right to me – ever.
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From that time on, I always had the studios on my neck.
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Hopefully in the future, generational challenges will be measured by achievement, not gender.
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People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
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I have all of these lives that I want the music to live, but at the end of the day, it's out there.
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Love is the life of the soul. It is the harmony of the universe.
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I love to read about music and about art, but I don't try and take things about mythology or guidelines as to how I'm to behave as an artist. It's the realm of intellectual debate. Actually, more and more my direction is trying to get further away from being self-conscious of what the parameters are of the mainstream, where it intersects with the underground.
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I'm very much involved in art. I started buying art a few years ago and really like the work of T.C. Cannon, who is a native American artist. Then I was introduced to Soviet-era Russian impressionism and started collecting that, especially Gely Korzhev.
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I was listening to Jimi Hendrix; I just admire his artistry and creativity as an artist.
