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You ask me, Did I like Arsenio? About as much as the Bicentennial.

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Ice Cube
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: June 15
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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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Creating is really what I like to do. The best thing in the world is to have an idea in the back of your head and then to make that idea into a movie and have people all over the world enjoy it.
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Our household is built on love and respect. And we don't really let negative vibes stay too long. It's worked out. I got a great family, great kids.
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If you really look at my lyrics, nobody's exempt. Nobody's exempt from observation, criticism or what I think is correction.
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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 identify with the bottom of the pyramid, because, outside of having money, I am at the bottom of the pyramid.
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It's easier for me to get comedies made because of my track record. Everybody needs to find their niche. I love dramas, but I understand that I am still just a young man in moviemaking. I know there will be some time to get back to that.
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Everybody thinks the grass is greener on the other side. If you talk to most artists, they think they can play something, you know, If I had stayed playing football in high school, if I had been doing basketball... Everybody's got their fantasies and thinks the grass is greener. It's not. It's not.
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Once you figure out what your own thing is it's all about trying to develop shows, programs that can, I guess, enhance what you already have and what you can add to Hollywood.
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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. And that just gave me a chance to see how life could be. And it gave me a chance to interact with everybody, not just black people or Mexicans. It made me just a little more worldly.
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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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Run DMC brought us out of that underground-only feel. They brought rap above ground and made it respectable as an art form to mainstream music.
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I'm not actually from Compton - I'm from South Central Los Angeles, and my father still lives in the same house I grew up in, so I'm there all the time.
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Sports without music is just a game. Music makes it entertaining.
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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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There's not enough Ice Cubes out there. There's not enough Ice Cubes getting a chance to do their thing.
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I believe every pencil has to be sharpened every now and then to stay sharp, or you dull out. So my records, I chose to speak on what black people do, what white people do, what women do, what men do.
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You don't have to spend $200 million or $100 million to make a great movie.
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Keep doin' what you're doin', fall in love with what you're creating, and everything else will fall into place.
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I know I ain't too old. I always think of my fans about 10 years older and 10 years younger than me.
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