My advice for anyone who wants to follow in my footsteps: create your own path, hone your talent, be ready to show your talent, and don’t doubt yourself.
ICE CUBETruth is the ultimate power. When the truth comes around, all the lies have to run and hide.
More Ice Cube Quotes
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I love any time you can enlighten people to mistakes, that’s how I started my career.
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The silver and black may have another home, but the Raiders will always belong to the people of Los Angeles.
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Don’t worry about being a star, worry about doing good work, and all that will come to you.
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I wish the world would become what God wanted it to be in the first place, before we tampered with it.
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The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love.
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I grew up in the seventies and disco was big. That influenced me the most.
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A bird in the hand is worth more than a Bush.
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Our household is built on love and respect. And we don’t really let negative vibes stay too long. It’s worked out. I got a great family, great kids.
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You pay to have a good time, you don’t always want to pay to be schooled or sad or reminded how bad you got it. To me a movie theater ain’t always the place for that.
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You don’t wanna mess up what you’ve done. It’s like Jordan coming back: You’re scared to mess up the legacy.
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I think, to me, reality is better than being fake.
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I have a really beautiful life right now, so there is no reason to be hostile. I’m a husband, a father and a man who tries to do the right thing in life and in my work.
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If you love what you do, and you believe in your talent, there’s nothing better than breaking through. There’s no better feeling than breaking through.
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I do what I do. You like it, great. You don’t, go listen to somebody else. I’m stickin’ with the people who stuck with me.
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You wanna be remembered for making an impact and changing things.And I guess for the good or for the bad, it don’t matter. But I guess you just wanna be remembered when it’s all said and done.
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There’s things people say in the barbershop they won’t even say in their own living room, because it’s just one of those zones where nobody’s going to judge you too much about your dumb opinion.
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Keep doin’ what you’re doin’, fall in love with what you’re creating, and everything else will fall into place.
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The hardest period for a writer is the period in-between writing. That’s when you can go crazy if you don’t allow the creative juices to flow.
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You like a woman, she’s got kids, it’s a package. You can’t just go in one-sided.
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I believe every pencil has to be sharpened every now and then to stay sharp, or you dull out. So my records, I chose to speak on what black people do, what white people do, what women do, what men do.
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You can do anything in the world if you say “Hey man, don’t blame me, the devil made me do it. It’s an easy way to escape responsibility.”
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I have great people, smart people that are around me and we love the challenge. I guess it’s like climbing a mountain or building a building. It’s a challenge but you love every challenge that it brings or presents itself.
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You never get tired of seeing yourself on TV. It’s always extra cool… always a treat.
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You want the industry to finally admit that you’re good. But I’m still good without their admission.
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Rap is just somebody getting something off his chest. That’s all it is.
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The thing is with hip-hop, it has its waves and the waves crash against the beach and the new waves come in. So to stay relevant you have to roll with that.
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