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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. "
Ice Cube
Light
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" There's a lot of talent in South Central L.A., in Compton and Long Beach and Watts, and the city north of Pico pretty much sits back and waits for that talent to emerge and then steps in. "
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" When I did 'Boyz N The Hood', I never thought how we grew up in South Central was interesting enough for a movie. "
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" I still enjoy doing music. I'm not going to stop doing it, and doing it the way that I feel it should be done. "
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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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" My grandmother worked at one of those Bel-Air mansions, and we would go - not too often, but every now and then - to pick her up. Hollywood was probably 12 miles from my house, but it might as well have been a million miles away. The only time I saw that world was on TV. Until I started making records. "
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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 wake up at 5:30, 6 in the morning, but don't head into the office right away. I like to hang out with my wife, talk about things, get some coffee, you know. "
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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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" '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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" Snoop Dog is the Phil Jackson of youth football coaches. He ain't going to accept nothing but a winner. "
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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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" When I was in N.W.A. and didn't get paid all the money I was owed, that's when the business side of showbiz hit me. "
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" My son, O'Shea. He looks like me, and he can rhyme. "
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" I think, to me, reality is better than being fake. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" Even though I have a nice house, nice family, the rest of my generation is still in South Central L.A. My cousins, my brothers, my sisters, they don't wanna move out. They don't want to and they don't have the means to sustain it. That's where my heart is and that's what I think about all the time. "
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" 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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" 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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" 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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" Don't worry about being a star, worry about doing good work, and all that will come to you. "
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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, it's nothing but a game. Music adds the emotion. "
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" I don't get nothing but love. In every ghetto all over the world. Nothing but love. They respect that I came outta there and I'm doing it the right way. You can't do nothing but respect that. "
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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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" I was a very interested arts student, I was always into that part of school and when I got into high school I went into architectural drafting. It gave me an understanding of how to build things and it's really helped me put things in perspective. With my music and my movies, to me it's all art. "
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