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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Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end.
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If you want to be told what to think, well, I'm not in that business.
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I was a weird kid.
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It wasn't that I hated being asked a bunch of questions. I had nothing against questions. I just didn't like listening to them, because some questions take forever to make sense. Sometimes waiting for a question to finish is like watching someone draw an elephant starting with the tail first. As soon as you see the tail your mind wanders all over the place and you think of a million other animals that also have tails until you don't care about the elephant because it's only one thing when you've been thinking about a million others.
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We see a world of abundance, not limits. In the midst of a great deal of talk about reducing the human ecological footprint, we offer a different vision. What if humans designed products and systems that celebrate an abundance of human creativity, culture, and productivity? That are so intelligent and safe, our species leaves an ecological footprint to delight in, not lament?
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I was listening to Jimi Hendrix; I just admire his artistry and creativity as an artist.
