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.
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.
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Rap is just somebody getting something off his chest. That’s all it is.
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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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Create your own path, hone your talent, be ready to show your talent, and don’t doubt yourself.
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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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I was ready to get out of the box and play something a little different than what everybody has seen.
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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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Sometimes, when you want to laugh, reality steps in.
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I have great people, smart people that are around me and we love the challenge. I guess it’s like climbing a mountain or building a building. It’s a challenge but you love every challenge that it brings or presents itself.
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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 love any time you can enlighten people to mistakes, that’s how I started my career.
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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 think everybody likes a person that stands up for themselves. Nobody likes a punk or a coward.
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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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You like a woman, she’s got kids, it’s a package. You can’t just go in one-sided.
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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 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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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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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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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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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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The thing is with hip-hop, it has its waves and the waves crash against the beach and the new waves come in. So to stay relevant you have to roll with that.
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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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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 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 the worst thing you can do about a situation is nothing.
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