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" I never get tired of 'It Was A Good Day' references or jokes or anything like that. It's just, you know, keeping my biggest hit alive. Nothing wrong with that. "
Ice Cube
Good Day
Day
You
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" I make a mean cup of coffee, if you give me the right ingredients. "
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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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" 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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" I used to love to draw. I didn't want to go to art class because I felt that would be too corny when I was young, but architectural drafting was the cool thing to do because there was more precision. It taught me a lot about building and structures and doorways and frames and windowsills. "
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" 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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Good
" 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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Wake Up
You
" 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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Proud
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" Sports without music, it's nothing but a game. Music adds the emotion. "
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Nothing
Emotion
Game
" Sports without music is just a game. Music makes it entertaining. "
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Without
Music
" 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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World
Sometimes
" 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. "
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Hate
Think
School
" There's a lot of potential that goes unused in places like South Central L.A., a lot of brilliant, smart people who just don't have that chance to show it. "
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People
Places
" Rap is just somebody getting something off his chest. That's all it is. "
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Off
His
Something
" 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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Picture
Blame
School
" I really appreciate family. I really can't imagine life without them! "
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Family
Without
Appreciate
" 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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You
World
Respect
" Early in my career, people wanted to hear music about protest, about trying to change things. "
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Change
Trying
People
" 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. "
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Good
Fast
Believe
" 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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Money
People
Me
" Don't get a movie confused with real life. I'm a well-rounded human being like everyone else. "
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Real Life
Confused
Human
" 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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House
Time
World
" For me rappers and dancers are poets and artists and often times the most interesting performances are given by them. "
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Interesting
Dancers
" 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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Great
Go
Me
" Doing it your own way, not having to go exactly by the book to be successful. "
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Doing
Way
Successful
" Don't worry about being a star, worry about doing good work, and all that will come to you. "
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Doing
You
Worry
" If you think about stuff that happened when you were young, it stays with you forever. "
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Young
You
Forever
" Snoop Dog is the Phil Jackson of youth football coaches. He ain't going to accept nothing but a winner. "
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Dog
Accept
" There's never really been a real hood Christmas movie. "
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Hood
Real
Never
" 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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Mortals
Us
Step
" 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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