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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. Even if I let it go off and go crazy, I'm still the voice of keeping things grounded in reality.

Ice Cube

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Ice Cube
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: June 15
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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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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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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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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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I've never really taken myself too serious. That's everybody else, listening to the music or whatever. I've always said what I've felt, said what I thought was right, but I've always had a comedic bone.
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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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The '80s was brand new. It was AIDS. It was gangbanging. It was starting to become big dope-dealing, and crack was starting to flood the neighborhoods. And then you had hip hop, which was something new, other than what we were doing, which was sports, playing football, basketball, baseball. And I was excited.
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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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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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Are We There Yet? was the perfect title, because it's such a common saying. And having made the movie with the same name kinda locks it all in.
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