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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Classical - perhaps I should say 'orchestral' - music is so digital, so cut up, rhythmically, pitchwise and in terms of the roles of the musicians. It's all in little boxes. The reason you get child prodigies in chess, arithmetic, and classical composition is that they are all worlds of discontinuous, parceled-up possibilities.
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I think of us as journalists; the medium we work in is blogging.
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If ye would go up high, then use your own legs! Do not get yourselves carried aloft; do not seat yourselves on other people's backs and heads!
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Fortunately, artists can live off their works, if you're creative at how you do it. If you just depend on the videos and the radio, you're at a loss.
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I would rather do a play because it's instantaneous. You go on the stage, and you know whether it's happening or not. Somebody asked me 'What is acting?' And I said, 'Acting is listening.' And if you ain't listening, nobody's listening.
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I was listening to Jimi Hendrix; I just admire his artistry and creativity as an artist.
