will.i.am (William James Adams, Jr.) Quotes
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'Empathy' is the latest code word for liberal activism, for treating the Constitution as malleable clay to be kneaded and molded in whatever form justices want. It represents an expansive view of the judiciary in which courts create policy that couldn't pass the legislative branch or, if it did, would generate voter backlash.
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I have just begun a work in which an important part is given to a large chorus and with it I want to use several of your instruments - augmenting their range as in those I used for my Equatorial - especially in the high range.
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We want a story that starts out with an earthquake and works its way up to a climax.
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I'm never nervous about being vulnerable with my songwriting because my favorite artists are ones that are vulnerable. I want people to feel like they know me.
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I get motivated by the fact people are following me, that they want a photo or say 'vamos' or 'Canelo.'
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This is how it has been since time began: If you want to make something really worthwhile and true, then you have to suffer for it.
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I think with girlfriends, you always want your girlfriends to make the decisions for themselves, not based on a boy, not based on anything other than, 'Is this what you want?' Is this you know what you want to do?' And that's real support to me.
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When readers close the covers on 'Running the Rift,' I want them to understand that it is not a genocide novel but rather a story of hope and rebirth.
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I know what women want. They want to be beautiful.
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People believe what they want to believe.
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I just want to make a classic. Classic is the standard. I'm just trying to make music that will last a lifetime.
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I'm a collaborator. I know I don't know everything. I don't want to know everything.
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If you're filming somebody doing something they really want to do, you're probably not very high on their list of problems to deal with. You see James Carville on the phone - he's like that whether you have a camera or not. He isn't doing it just for you, and that's hard to explain.
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I want girls to know that equality exists in this world. You can do anything you want.
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I think what people get confused about is that they want to label me as this EDM girl, but a lot of this stuff is genre-less.
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I don't want to be known as the one who makes movies for older people.
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If you want to accomplish twice as much, you have to work twice as hard.
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I don't want to privatise part of the parliament, like some people in Russia.
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Comedy requires a lot of energy.
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We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldn't use irony to reduce their power.
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If we did not have rational souls, we would not be able to believe.
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When I sing along with Britney Spears I will sing in an American accent. But eventually I found my own voice. My songs are so brutally honest, it would be alien to sing in any accent other than my own. Don't get me wrong - I can imitate singers. I can do bar mitzvahs and weddings.
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If you want to be a better musician, hang out with a computer coder.
