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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.

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Ice Cube
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: June 15
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My movies work because not many people in Hollywood are like me.
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When you're spending your money for a nice outing, you want to go have a good time. And I always thought comedies, laughing, was something that was made for entertainment on that level. And records and maybe TV and stuff like that is really made to be heavy.
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When I was six, God was a white man with a big beard riding on a white cloud. That's the image television pumps.
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The silver and black may have another home, but the Raiders will always belong to the people of Los Angeles.
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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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Nowadays, you can be yourself. You don't have to put on façade. You can be who you are and still be just as successful as the ones who put on the fake façade. You know, it's like reality is just as important as fiction.
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If you born in the mud, you gonna be dirty, and people don't understand that.
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I'm not the type of actor who is trying to do a whole bunch of different shit, you know what I mean?
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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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I've been around a lot longer than most rappers stay around. So I don't feel like, I haven't made too many career mistakes.
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I think my fans respect me for bein' as truthful and honest as you can be and still be Rap music and not be opinion music. It's still Rap, its still style, flavor, flair, and people just kind of like how I present myself and the things that I do.
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I get freedom out of hip-hop. I get to be a true artist without any shackles or harnesses.
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I definitely know the minister Honorable Louis Farrakhan. But I don't really believe in organized religion like that. I don't know what it does for people in the long run.
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You have to resist falling in love with the money they [producers] want to give you. You have to really resist that, and you have to just think about the work and whether it's a movie that you would want to see.
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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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Most of the problems that we have are brought on by the government and not by music. Music is a mirror of what we're going through, not the cause of what we're going through.
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I think that my Let's get it done! Let's have fun! Let's make a great movie! attitude helped. I rarely have problems on my movies with egos and attitudes.
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I can't really attribute my success onscreen to any formula and suggest you do this or that to make it as an actor.
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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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You don't have to spend $200 million or $100 million to make a great movie.
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