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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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" I make a mean cup of coffee, if you give me the right ingredients. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Don't worry about being a star, worry about doing good work, and all that will come to you. "

" It's not like I'm the first man ever to do this, y'know? You gotta go back to Nat King Cole, Bing Crosby and Sammy Davis Jr. Those are people who've done music well and movies well, and y'know, Frank Sinatra and Elvis and all these dudes have made the transition. I don't know about Elvis, 'bout doin' 'em good, y'know? It's nothin' new. "

" 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. "

" 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 is the piece of me that I give away to the public. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Anything that got to do with a pig, I ain't eatin'. "

" 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. "

" There's never really been a real hood Christmas movie. "

" 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. "

" Truth is the ultimate power. When the truth comes around, all the lies have to run and hide. "

" 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. "

" I've done movies for certain reasons; I did 'Anaconda' because the black man lives. Simple. The black man isn't dead in the first three pages, like Jurassic Park. It's like, 'The black man kills the snake with a Latino girl? Damn! I got to do this.' "

" You like a woman, she's got kids, it's a package. You can't just go in one-sided. "

" 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! "

" 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. "

" I love music. It's freedom, a way to deal with pent-up frustration. "

" '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. "

" Rap is just somebody getting something off his chest. That's all it is. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I think the worst thing you can do about a situation is nothing. "

" My son, O'Shea. He looks like me, and he can rhyme. "

" 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. "