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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I never really wanted kids. I didn't not want them, but motherhood just wasn't something that pulled at me.
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If you want to accomplish twice as much, you have to work twice as hard.
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Focus comes a lot more easily when you desperately want the results of your own work - nobody else is going to do it for you.
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The basic philosophy behind [switch putting] is you always want a hook putt. So for a left-to-right breaking putt, you're going to want to hit it left-handed and vice versa.
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If you want to cut down a tree, it is no use to climb into its branches.
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I learned how to sing in front of a lot of people and to hone my skills alongside some of the greatest performers of all time.
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Getting to share the stories in my head with other people and have them enjoy those stories, and having them come to see my characters as real. That's so cool.
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If you want to be a better musician, hang out with a computer coder.
