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.
ICE CUBESometimes, when you want to laugh, reality steps in.
More Ice Cube Quotes
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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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I am only 33, I’ve got a lot to do. This is the first half of my career. I’m looking forward to the future and I’m proud about the past.
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The real is always presented. That hardcore record or movie is not needed in the hood, because it’s already there. You can see it with your own eyes.
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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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Should I peel a cap or should I let him survive?
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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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To me, in a perfect world, you have the flavor and the magic of movies like 48 Hours, Lethal Weapon and Bad Boys.
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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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Truth is the ultimate power. When the truth comes around, all the lies have to run and hide.
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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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Most of the problems that we have are brought on by the government and not by music. Music is a mirror of what we’re going through, not the cause of what we’re going through.
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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 been all around the world and I haven’t found a city that I’d rather be from or rather come back to than Los Angeles.
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If you born in the mud, you gonna be dirty, and people don’t understand that.
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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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A bird in the hand is worth more than a Bush.
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If you think about stuff that happened when you were young, it stays with you forever.
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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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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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Doing it your own way, not having to go exactly by the book to be successful.
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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 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 everybody likes a person that stands up for themselves. Nobody likes a punk or a coward.
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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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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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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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