I love any time you can enlighten people to mistakes, that’s how I started my career.
ICE CUBEThere’s nothing wrong with starting off in a box, but you got to have a plan to come out that box.
More Ice Cube Quotes
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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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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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When I was six, God was a white man with a big beard riding on a white cloud. That’s the image television pumps.
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I feel like I got a whole lot of living to do before I think about summing it up in a book.
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I love music. It’s freedom, a way to deal with pent-up frustration.
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I identify with the bottom of the pyramid, because, outside of having money, I am at the bottom of the pyramid.
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A bird in the hand is worth more than a Bush.
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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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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 always want to read the script before I totally commit.
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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 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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Don’t get a movie confused with real life. I’m a well-rounded human being like everyone else.
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I’m always open, and will criticize myself, too. And I just think being that honest with everybody puts you in a different space than somebody who’s just shooting venom at a certain group or a certain amount of individuals.
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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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The silver and black may have another home, but the Raiders will always belong to the people of Los Angeles.
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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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If I only had 24 hours to live, I would spend the time telling everybody I love that I love them.
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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’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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Early in my career, people wanted to hear music about protest, about trying to change things.
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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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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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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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I always was like, “Yo, I’m here, I might as well get what I could take.”
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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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