I’m always happy. I’ve just got a mean face.
ICE CUBEIf 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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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.
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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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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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I think the worst thing you can do about a situation is nothing.
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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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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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If you think about stuff that happened when you were young, it stays with you forever.
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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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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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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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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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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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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’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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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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You want the industry to finally admit that you’re good. But I’m still good without their admission.
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Early in my career, people wanted to hear music about protest, about trying to change things.
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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 always want to read the script before I totally commit.
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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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I love any time you can enlighten people to mistakes, that’s how I started my career.
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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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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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I never was in the Nation of Islam… I mean, what I call myself is a natural Muslim, ’cause it’s just me and God.
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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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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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