will.i.am (William James Adams, Jr.) Quotes

When someone is denying what they are, then that's when things start to spiral down.

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• 'Antiques Roadshow' is my favorite show. Every Monday night I have one hour of appointment television. I get the popcorn out and tell my husband, 'Don't bother me.'

  

  Lara Spencer
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• It's great to see that kind of support online. For people to be messaging myself, my nan and the rest of my family, all the support has been great.

  

  Adam Peaty
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• Even a casual reader of the financial pages knows that microcaps are a perennial headache for regulators and, above all, for investors because they have been prone to abuse by stock manipulators.

  

  Gary Weiss
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• I have wedded the cause of human improvement, staked on it my fortune, my reputation and my life.

  

  Frances Wright
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• La India's voice is so powerful. It will give you life.

  

  Kali Uchis
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• I would hope that people didn't think I was anything like Joan! It's very hard for me because Joan says such cruel things all the time. It sort of makes me cringe every time I read them because I think, 'Who could be so horrible?' To be able to deliver those lines and do them with a coolness, yet still make her likable, is a bit of a challenge.

  

  Christina Hendricks
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• It's so deeply disturbing to me that half of the eligible voters don't vote in this country. We talk about how divided the country is. The truth is, we don't even know. We just know what the half that voted thought.

  

  Christie Hefner
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• I think it's important to look at the world as a bigger place than just the bubble that we live in. It's so easy to get caught up in things of a trivial nature.

  

  Pete Wentz Fall Out Boy
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• In Hollywood they usually cast me as villains or priests.

  

  Max von Sydow

• You have to find some way of engaging with the world around you, however it's constituted. The engagement is necessarily going to be flawed. But if you do it on your own terms, you'll be able to extract some pleasure from the world. It might even make you really happy sometimes.

  

  Alexandra Kleeman
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• Listen to any cantor, any good hazan, sing and you can hear a little bit of Ray Charles going on.

  

  Jerry Leiber
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• Scientology is not a white religion. It is not just for white people.

  

  Douglas Davis
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• We are different, in essence, from other men. If you want to win something, run 100 meters. If you want to experience something, run a marathon.

  

  Emil Zatopek
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• I was unemployable when I got out of college.

  

  Jeffrey Eugenides
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• What the public needs to understand is that these new technologies, especially in recombinant DNA technology, allow scientists to bypass biological boundaries altogether.

  

  Jeremy Rifkin
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• The front of a cheque alone gives someone enough information to steal your identity.

  

  Frank Abagnale
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• I don't know what type of music my son will want. By the time he starts listening to music, really, at like, 15, 16, I'll probably have 10 albums out by that time.

  

  Meek Mill
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• Action roles - or any role - should go to the best guy for the job. People obsess about nationality. Hollywood and America might be the hub for pop culture and cinema for the Western world, but that shouldn't suggest that all the roles should go to young American men.

  

  Jai Courtney
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• You can make bad choices and find yourself in a downward spiral or you can find something that gets you out of it.

  

  Ray LaMontagne
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• We do NOT know the past in chronological sequence. It may be convenient to lay it out anesthetized on the table with dates pasted on here and there, but what we know we know by ripples and spirals eddying out from us and from our own time.

  

  Ezra Pound
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• I believe that you can reach the point where there is no longer any difference between developing the habit of pretending to believe and developing the habit of believing.

  

  Umberto Eco
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• The truth is sometimes the very opposite from what you expect it to be.

  

  Pam Jenoff
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• When someone is denying what they are, then that's when things start to spiral down.

  

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