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" Don't get a movie confused with real life. I'm a well-rounded human being like everyone else. "
Ice Cube
Real Life
Confused
Human
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" Music is where I have the most creative freedom, but I love producing. To me, that's kind of where all the action is. You get a chance to have your hands in every aspect of a film. From picking a director, sometimes picking a writer, to the actors, the wardrobe, set design, editing, music, and marketing. "
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Freedom
Love
Music
" Young people are dying for no reason all over the world that don't know why. It's ugly, everywhere. "
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Dying
Know
People
" Quincy Jones' autobiography 'Q' is very good. Because he's a master at music, he's one of our greatest composers, and its good for him to have a book and tell the good ole days when he was with Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Sarah Vaughan and Ray Charles. "
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Music
Book
Good
" With film, I have to be a team player; it's a whole different thing. I can't just be a one-man show. I have to learn how to use people to the best of their ability and motivate them to be as passionate about the project as I am. "
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Learn
Team
Best
" 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. "
Ice Cube
Dark
Fantasy
Funny
" I'm not the type of actor who is trying to do a whole bunch of different stuff, you know what I mean? "
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Actor
Mean
Stuff
" Rap is always evolving. It's easy for the old school to hate the new school, but it's a music that got a little stifled I think, by the Internet a little bit. "
Ice Cube
Hate
Think
School
" 'Boyz-n-the-Hood' was actually supposed to be written for Eazy's group. He had a group out in New York called Home Boys Only, called HBO. One of them looked like LL Cool J. Eazy wanted to write a song for them, a street song, like what we were doing on the mix tapes. So when I wrote it, it was too West Coast for them. "
Ice Cube
Song
Group
Doing
" I go light on breakfast. Sometimes it's a yogurt, but a lot of times it's leftovers from one of my wife's dinners. "
Ice Cube
Light
Wife
Breakfast
" I'm a B-boy at heart. I still like rhyming. It's just the radio game is like Chinese arithmetic. It's hard to know what nuts to crack. But I still love music, been dropping music. Never stopped, really. "
Ice Cube
Never
Heart
Love
" I believe how you measure a good movie is how many times you can see it. With comedies, I like to be a producer, because comedies can get corny and go off track real fast. 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. "
Ice Cube
Good
Fast
Believe
" 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. "
Ice Cube
Love
Great
Challenge
" I'm trying to cut down a little on eating, on sodium, keep my blood pressure down, which is tough. Because I love food! I do, but it's unfair how everything that's bad for you tastes so good, and all the good stuff, veggies and green things, doesn't match up. "
Ice Cube
Good
Tough
Pressure
" 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. "
Ice Cube
Man
Father
Now
" Sports without music is just a game. Music makes it entertaining. "
Ice Cube
Sports
Without
Music
" I remember wishing there was snow in L.A. And how jealous we used to get of those Christmas specials with kids playing in the snow. "
Ice Cube
Remember
Jealous
Used
" I used to game a lot, you know, back in the day. My gaming time done got so short that my skills ain't where they need to be to be online, you know what I'm saying? I just got that Xbox One. I gotta get my skills back, up the par to call myself a gamer. "
Ice Cube
Time
Day
Game
" My son Darrel could recite 'Straight Outta Compton' at two years old. He loved it! You can expose your kids to anything as long as you sit there and explain it to them. "
Ice Cube
Two
You
Son
" Early in my career, people wanted to hear music about protest, about trying to change things. "
Ice Cube
Change
Trying
People
" When people see the Cubevision logo, they should know it's something good, something worth checking out. "
Ice Cube
Good
Worth
People
" If it was all about me, I'd do a whole lot of pop records, make a whole lot of money, just rake in the dough. But it's never been all about me. It's all about being a voice for the voiceless. People who can't speak for themselves, who don't have a mic, don't have a say. "
Ice Cube
Money
People
Me
" I think, to me, reality is better than being fake. "
Ice Cube
Think
Better
Fake
" Sports without music, it's nothing but a game. Music adds the emotion. "
Ice Cube
Nothing
Emotion
Game
" It never gets old. Working with somebody like Kevin Hart is rejuvenating in a lot of ways. He's such a pro. He's so good. "
Ice Cube
Good
He
Like
" Ice Cube is the piece of me that I give away to the public. "
Ice Cube
Cube
Away
Me
" I think rap music is brought up, gangster rap in particular, as well as video games, every other thing they try to hang the ills of society on as a scapegoat. "
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Video Games
Try
Think
" 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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Done
Back
You
" The best thing I've done with my money is buy a house for my family. You wake up to a house you love and you feel like somebody. "
Ice Cube
Family
Wake Up
You
" 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. "
Ice Cube
Hip-Hop
Stay
New
" 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. "
Ice Cube
Myself
Nation
Islam