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As an actor, you can do what you want with your role. That's why they hire you to take the role and make it real.

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Ice T
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: February 16
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Redemption just means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you were doing, which was wrong.
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in the mornin' po-lice at my door Fresh adidas squeak across the bathroom floor Out the back window.. I make a escape Don't even get a chance to grab my old school tape
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I've always been a person that, if I'm with a woman, she's in the picture. Even my son's mom, she was on my early (album) covers.
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I don't feel that rap has been respected as an art form. Because people have seen rappers rap off the top of their heads, they don't think it is difficult.
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I didn't really realize how big I was 'til I started to tour, because being in your own neighborhood, people don't actually give you full props.
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I've been pulled out of my nice new car and laid out in the street by the police, interrogated and then have them get in the car and roll off leaving me lying in the street without even saying 'Get up.' The humiliation that they can put on a black man because they determine that you ain't got the money.
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Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.
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The best way to compliment an emcee is to say his lyrics. That's how you say, Hello.
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Redemption means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you were doing, which was wrong. So I think a lot of people get hooked on drugs and when they get over that addiction they go out and they try to talk to kids and they try to work in rehab centers.
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The next day, I got a phone call from him and he told me to come and read for a movie called New Jack City. So I went over there and they told me I was gonna wear dreads and play a cop.
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You know, I say in my lyrics, Every word I write will be analyzed by somebody white. It's just that I know that this sh*t is just not gonna fall on deaf ears.
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Real men hold themselves accountable for stuff.
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You can't just sing the song and live another life.
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...As an artist, you need the naysayers and the nonbelievers to add fuel to your creative fire.
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I was doing the wrong thing, at the time I thought I was doing the right thing. It's like if you're dealing with somebody who is high on drugs, they can look back at it and say, Wow, I was destroying myself. But during the period, they think they're doing the right thing. You just have to let the smoke clear so you can see the whole picture.
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Half the rhymes you write, you're saying that you're better than the other MC. That's how we keep the craft sharp.
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Ultimately I am happy that everybody is embracing hip hop and the sounds from the streets.
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Rap is rock 'n' roll. Rock is when you push the buttons in the system when you say, I'm not going along with what you're saying. That's rock, whether it's done with guitars, or it's done with just beats.
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I'm very much against the anonymity of bloggers and social media. I just hate it and I think it's really cowardly.
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I mean rappin' to me is easy, it's something you can do over a week.
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