will.i.am (William James Adams, Jr.) Quotes
If countries were people, England and France would be old men. Italy would be dead. Compared with them, America is in its 20s.
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I think there is an enormous sea change happening in the global workforce. It has a lot to do with globalization. I think that people used to have a hope for a career or meaningful employment, and its been reduced to internships, part-time work or just grossly underpaid work.
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The Haitian people are gentle and lovable except for their enormous and unconscious cruelty.
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Ego is one of the biggest weapons that is used to take us down. It's self-destructive. It's a problem on all levels - even regular people can have big ego problems.
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Since I started acting, I've always been aware of the sort of 'beastly entity' that is America and Hollywood, and semi-consciously, I devised a kind of route in - I'd seen a lot of people try and fail.
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I've been quite fascinated by the relative insignificance of human existence, the shortness of life. We might as well be a letter in a word in a sentence on a page in a book in a library in a city in one country in this enormous universe! And that kind of fear and insignificance has kept me awake at night.
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I think what made it difficult for people to get, and still makes it difficult for people to get, is the theatrical nature of the work and the fact that, my music doesn't exist without the performance-art element.
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Political systems are run by self-selecting politicians. We don't draft people; it's not jury duty.
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Our games are not always the best, but they are exciting, which is what people love to see.
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People who run a ready-to-wear company are businessmen rather than production or design people.
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Our education system is not preparing young people for the world they will face.
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I think the problem I have with films is that, because there's so much hype around them, they become bigger than they should be, really. There are things that people do every day in their little workshops that they'll take to heaven with them. You've got to realise that it's not everything, making films.
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A nation is a totality of men united through community of fate into a community of character.
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My job is to bring out in people what they wouldn't dare do themselves.
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When people know I wrote 'Thelma and Louise,' they don't want to mess with me.
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Writers are not just people who sit down and write. They hazard themselves. Every time you compose a book your composition of yourself is at stake.
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People ask me whether I see 'Star Wars' as a comedy or a tragedy, but it's really neither - it's partly a history, like 'Henry V,' and partly a fantasy, like 'The Tempest.'
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The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.
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Why can't people credit that he and all of us had a sense of humour?
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I'm the one who often makes the 'Murder, She Wrote' reference, and ABC hates that, they don't want me to do that. And I say that having never actually watched 'Murder, She Wrote'. I think people have been trying to compare it to crime shows that are on right now, and all I can do is listen. I don't watch a lot of TV.
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Men and women are like right and left hands; it doesn't make sense not to use both.
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The transition of a desk job, having to be in the office at the same time every day, I found super hard.
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Whenever I'm writing a script, I'm scoring myself by playing the right kind of music.
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I realized I had it made because you don't have to destroy anything to get honey. You can just use the same things over and over again, put it in a quart canning jar, and you've got $12.
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If countries were people, England and France would be old men. Italy would be dead. Compared with them, America is in its 20s.
