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 CUBEIf you born in the mud, you gonna be dirty, and people don’t understand 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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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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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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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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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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If you born in the mud, you gonna be dirty, and people don’t understand that.
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There’s nothing wrong with starting off in a box, but you got to have a plan to come out that box.
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Should I peel a cap or should I let him survive?
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I think reading is important in any form. I think a person who’s trying to learn to like reading should start off reading about a topic they are interested in, or a person they are interested in.
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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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Doing it your own way, not having to go exactly by the book to be successful.
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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’m always the “less is more” guy when it comes to a scene. So I’ma be the one who will keep it grounded. Even if I let it go off and go crazy, I’m still the voice of keeping things grounded in reality.
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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 think, to me, reality is better than being fake.
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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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Create your own path, hone your talent, be ready to show your talent, and don’t doubt yourself.
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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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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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Rap is just somebody getting something off his chest. That’s all it is.
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Any time there’s racism somewhere in sports, we should get it out of there because sports is a place where everything’s supposed to be fair.
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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 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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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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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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