Ice Cube Quotes

Here, we’ve compiled a list of the best Ice Cube Quotes. The wide variety of quotes available makes it possible to find a quote to suit your needs. You’ve likely heard some of the Ice Cube Quotes before, but that’s because they truly are great.

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I have a really beautiful life right now, so there is n

I have a really beautiful life right now, so there is no reason to be hostile. I’m a husband, a father and a man who tries to do the right thing in life and in my work.
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You don’t wanna mess up what you‘ve done. It’s like Jordan coming back: You’re scared to mess up the legacy.
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I’m just an entertainer, man. I don’t like to pigeonhole myself to anything. I love to do it all.
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Ice Cube is the piece of me that I give away to the public.
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I make a mean cup of coffee, if you give me the right ingredients.
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My thing is, I know kids cuss, they do their thing, but I tell my kids, ‘Don’t do it in earshot of any adults, or you’re in trouble.’
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I’ve been caught in parachute pants. And on my high school yearbook, they used the wrong picture. They were supposed to use the picture of me with a nice suit on. They used me with my collar flipped up, in a fuchsia and white striped shirt. I blame Prince and Michael Jackson in the Eighties for that.
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When I did ‘Boyz N The Hood’, I never thought how we grew up in South Central was interesting enough for a movie.
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It never gets old. Working with somebody like Kevin Hart is rejuvenating in a lot of ways. He’s such a pro. He’s so good.
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I have great people, smart people that are around me and we love the challenge. I guess it’s like climbing a mountain or building a building. It’s a challenge but you love every challenge that it brings or presents itself.
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My son, O’Shea. He looks like me, and he can rhyme.
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We’re in this entertainment business really to give the audience what they want.
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Doing it your own way, not having to go exactly by the book to be successful.
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Anything that got to do with a pig, I ain’t eatin’.
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My son Darrel could reciteStraight Outta Compton’ at two years old. He loved it! You can expose your kids to anything as long as you sit there and explain it to them.
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I never was in the Nation of Islam… I mean, what I call myself is a natural Muslim, ’cause it’s just me and God. You know, going to the mosque, the ritual and the tradition, it’s just not in me to do. So I don’t do it.
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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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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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Young people are dying for no reason all over the world that don’t know why. It’s ugly, everywhere.
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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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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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I do what I do. You like it, great. You don’t, go listen to somebody else. I’m stickin’ with the people who stuck with me.
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Quincy Jones’ autobiography ‘Q’ is very good. Because he’s a master at music, he’s one of our greatest composers, and its good for him to have a book and tell the good ole days when he was with Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Sarah Vaughan and Ray Charles.
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Rap is just somebody getting something off his chest. That’s all it is.
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I did ‘Are We There Yet?’ because I wanted to do a movie for my fans‘ kids. Black kids don’t really see movies on this budget for them, starring them. And there’s so many white kids that love that movie.
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Don’t worry about being a star, worry about doing good work, and all that will come to you.
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It’s funny how people who ain’t never been down there can think that America is so fair and that we should be alright. It’s funny that the people who have their foot on our neck are telling us, ‘Get up. What’s wrong with you?’
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With film, I have to be a team player; it’s a whole different thing. I can’t just be a one-man show. I have to learn how to use people to the best of their ability and motivate them to be as passionate about the project as I am.
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When I was in N.W.A. and didn’t get paid all the money I was owed, that’s when the business side of showbiz hit me.
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I think reading is important in any form. I think a person who’s trying to learn to like reading should start off reading about a topic they are interested in, or a person they are interested in.
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I’m not the type of actor who is trying to do a whole bunch of different stuff, you know what I mean?
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Don’t get a movie confused with real life. I’m a well-rounded human being like everyone else.
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I used to game a lot, you know, back in the day. My gaming time done got so short that my skills ain’t where they need to be to be online, you know what I’m saying? I just got that Xbox One. I gotta get my skills back, up the par to call myself a gamer.
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There’s never really been a real hood Christmas movie.
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Sports without music is just a game. Music makes it entertaining.
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If you think about stuff that happened when you were young, it stays with you forever.
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South Central is just who I am.
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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’m not really into the political game as far as paying politicians and stuff like that, I’m not into that. You do your job, and I’ll do mine.
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I think I’m unique to the game ’cause of my versatility.
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There’s a lot of talent in South Central L.A., in Compton and Long Beach and Watts, and the city north of Pico pretty much sits back and waits for that talent to emerge and then steps in.
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Even though I have a nice house, nice family, the rest of my generation is still in South Central L.A. My cousins, my brothers, my sisters, they don’t wanna move out. They don’t want to and they don’t have the means to sustain it. That’s where my heart is and that’s what I think about all the time.
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I think rap music is brought up, gangster rap in particular, as well as video games, every other thing they try to hang the ills of society on as a scapegoat.
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