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" Gangsta to us didn't have anything to do with Al Capone and stuff like that. It's just about living your life the way you want to live it. And you're not going to let nothing stop you. "
Ice Cube
You
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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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" Some people have a taboo about doing advertising in the States. You know, where they kind of make their bread and butter. But to me, that's crazy. "
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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 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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" Music has done a lot to enhance the emotions of sports. It's played in arenas. Whenever there is footage cut together they're always using music. And it goes together, you know. "
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" I've been caught in parachute pants. And on my high school yearbook, they used the wrong picture. They were supposed to use the picture of me with a nice suit on. They used me with my collar flipped up, in a fuchsia and white striped shirt. I blame Prince and Michael Jackson in the Eighties for that. "
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" 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. "
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" It's funny how people who ain't never been down there can think that America is so fair and that we should be alright. It's funny that the people who have their foot on our neck are telling us, 'Get up. What's wrong with you?' "
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" Sometimes when you're relegated to your neighborhood, you forget that there's more important things than your neighborhood going on out in the world. "
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" Doing it your own way, not having to go exactly by the book to be successful. "
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" Can't step from one movie set to the next. Only Samuel L. Jackson can do that. All us mere mortals can't do that! "
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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'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. "
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" What I learned from architectural drafting is that everything has to have a plan to work. You just can't wing it. I can't get all the materials I need for a house and just start building. Whether it's a career, family, life - you have to plan it out. "
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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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" '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. "
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" South Central is just who I am. "
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" I really appreciate family. I really can't imagine life without them! "
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" My worst ever car was a green Datsun B210, back when they called it 'Datsun' - now it's 'Nissan.' Very unsexy, unattractive. Girls hated the car. I was embarrassed to even be in it... but it was my transportation. "
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" 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. "
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" Obama reminds me of the black kid at a white school that don't nobody want to play with. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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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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" Sports without music is just a game. Music makes it entertaining. "
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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 definitely support cop acting more than cops, but all of them ain't bad, just some of them. "
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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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" 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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