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I know that there are obstacles I know that there are hills to climb, I know there were people before me that made my journey easier and there are people behind me that I have made the journey easier for.

Ice Cube

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Ice Cube
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: June 15
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Twerking has to end. Not for the ones that look good doing it, but for all the ones that you feel, 'You don't have enough to twerk back there. Your twerkin' look like jerkin.'
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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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If you give anybody the chance, they can always make a decent human being out of themselves. It's the people that don't have a chance, that we look down at like they're monsters or they're animals or that they want something different than the rest of us.
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Usually people who attack the rap are people who aren't even fans.
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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'm a good counter comedian. I can just work it off with looks, or have something crazy to say back. That works for me.
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I hope everything works in our favor. The show is cool. It’s family fare. We ain’t aiming at the cheap seats. Instead, we’re making something with a broad appeal that people of any color or creed and from all walks of life can enjoy and maybe learn something from.
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I've got a basketball signed by all the greats from Julius Irving to Oscar Robinson. It was at an All Star game I got them all to sign it. So that ain't going nowhere. I'm going to die with that in my casket.
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If you really think back to the culture or just black America before rap music took off, New York could have been Paris.
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Sports without music is just a game. Music makes it entertaining.
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The real is always presented. That hardcore record or movie is not needed in the hood, because it's already there. You can see it with your own eyes.
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But with rap music - not just N.W.A. - but rap music in general, seeing these artists wearing these team logos all the time started bringing a synergy and energy about having to rep your city, your team, everywhere and all the time.
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We're in this entertainment business really to give the audience what they want.
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I still enjoy doing music. I'm not going to stop doing it, and doing it the way that I feel it should be done.
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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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You become a writer on a television show, and you see yourself doing bigger and better things, you don't wait till they tell you, Here's the way to do bigger and better things, you start writing. You start writing that material that you might be doing off to the side. Nobody's going to be paying you for that, but it could turn into something b
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You always want your kids to step up at the moment of truth.
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I always was like, Yo, I'm here, I might as well get what I could take.
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I was a very interested arts student, I was always into that part of school and when I got into high school I went into architectural drafting. It gave me an understanding of how to build things and it’s really helped me put things in perspective. With my music and my movies, to me it’s all art.
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You can go raise the money outside of the industry, and then what you're doing is fighting with your money to get back into the industry, or for them to use your money instead of their own. So, you got to figure out how to do it within the flow of the industry.
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