I identify with the bottom of the pyramid, because, outside of having money, I am at the bottom of the pyramid.
ICE CUBEThe moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love.
More Ice Cube Quotes
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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 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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Don’t worry about being a star, worry about doing good work, and all that will come to you.
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I think the worst thing you can do about a situation is nothing.
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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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I love music. It’s freedom, a way to deal with pent-up frustration.
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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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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 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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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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If you born in the mud, you gonna be dirty, and people don’t understand that.
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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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I think, to me, reality is better than being fake.
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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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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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