I’m always happy. I’ve just got a mean face.
ICE CUBEThe 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.
More Ice Cube Quotes
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Doing it your own way, not having to go exactly by the book to be successful.
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I’m not actually from Compton – I’m from South Central Los Angeles, and my father still lives in the same house I grew up in, so I’m there all the time.
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Money is the root of all evil. Yeah, money is the root. It’s not racism and “this-ism” and “that-ism”; it’s our thirst and hunger for money. And that’s where all the bodies are buried.
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I love music. It’s freedom, a way to deal with pent-up frustration.
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I think, to me, reality is better than being fake.
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Should I peel a cap or should I let him survive?
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I’ve been fighting my whole career to show a different side and prove naysayers – not prove them wrong, because I don’t think you should get your energy from negative people.
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Sometimes you got to start somewhere. And it’s cool, as long as where you start is not where you plan on finishing.
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Rap is just somebody getting something off his chest. That’s all it is.
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Early in my career, people wanted to hear music about protest, about trying to change things.
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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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A lot of people have a misconception of what the ghetto is all about. You know, it’s only a small percentage of the people that are bad. Everybody else is good.
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I don’t cook gumbo, but I just know it’s a lot of good ingredients in it. And, with a movie, you got to have all those ingredients.
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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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Creating is really what I like to do. The best thing in the world is to have an idea in the back of your head and then to make that idea into a movie and have people all over the world enjoy it.
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Our records, if you have a dark sense of humor, were funny, but our records weren’t about comedy. They were about protests, fantasy, confrontation and all that.
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I’m not really into the political game as far as paying politicians and stuff like that, I’m not into that. You do your job, and I’ll do mine.
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I was ready to get out of the box and play something a little different than what everybody has seen.
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I think the worst thing you can do about a situation is nothing.
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I think everybody likes a person that stands up for themselves. Nobody likes a punk or a coward.
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Sometimes, when you want to laugh, reality steps in.
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Don’t talk about death, I’ve got too much life to live, To many orders to give.
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I definitely support cop acting more than cops, but all of them ain’t bad, just some of them.
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I know my flavor’s going to work because I just know there’s not a lot of guys like me around. So you got to figure out what’s that about you.
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There’s a lot of potential that goes unused in places like South Central L.A., a lot of brilliant, smart people who just don’t have that chance to show it.
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If you really look at my lyrics, nobody’s exempt. Nobody’s exempt from observation, criticism or what I think is correction.
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