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

Folks wanna be like Will I Am not Bill I Am. They wanna be like Stevie Wonder not Steve Jobs.

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• Sometimes, you're going 24 hours a day, seven days a week for a few months, and then you come home, and you wonder what you're doing with your life and why. At least, that's the experience I've had.

  

  Verite
  • Life
  • Why
  • Home

• I often wonder what I will be remembered in history for. Scholar? Military hero? Builder?

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • History
  • Wonder
  • Military

• Our present moment is a mystery that we are part of. Here and now is where all the wonder of life lies hidden. And make no mistake about it, to strive to live completely in the present is to strive for what already is the case.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Life
  • Live
  • Present

• He does all research now, but he put me on some medication, Zoloft, and, I tell you what, a lot of people have had pros and cons about it, but it was my wonder drug.

  

  Tanya Tucker
  • People
  • Me
  • Wonder

• I often wonder whether Negroes like myself who are pretty well known help out at all in breaking down barriers.

  

  Nat King Cole
  • Help
  • Pretty
  • Myself

• If I do have kids, I can't wait because I'm excited to go back to school to help them with their homework and remember how to do simple math. I think it's about staying curious and not losing the sense of wonder.

  

  Mamie Gummer
  • School
  • Kids
  • Remember

• You wonder why I only talk about my personal life. But that's all I've ever done.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • Life
  • Done
  • Why

• We lived in a flat that you could pretty much fit in my current kitchen. No wonder people drink! I can't understand why they don't throw themselves off the balconies.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • People
  • Why
  • Pretty

• Arab youth are taught to wonder, 'Since the Holocaust was a European affair, why are the Palestinians being forced to pay for the creation of Israel?'

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • Why
  • Wonder
  • Creation

• With cult foods, there is an underlying assumption that the best cooking ideas came generations ago. Yet culinary innovation is nothing to be ashamed of. When a chef tells me he is cooking with his grandmother's recipe, I always wonder why. Did talent skip the past two generations?

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Why
  • Past
  • Best

• When I was younger, I used to visualise myself scoring wonder goals, stuff like that.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Myself
  • Wonder
  • Goals

• Everything I write comes from my childhood in one way or another. I am forever drawing on the sense of mystery and wonder and possibility that pervaded that time of my life.

  

  Kate DiCamillo
  • Life
  • Time
  • Forever

• I sometimes wonder if I pushed myself to get out there and meet people I'd get more work.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • People
  • Work
  • Myself

• What am I doing in this silly showbiz life? I do wonder that sometimes.

  

  Saffron Burrows
  • Life
  • Wonder
  • Silly

• I've been divorced and I had to get back out there be single again and do some of that in the genuinely miserable state where you really do wonder what the hell is going on. And you feel like trying to have casual conversation with someone you don't know on the surface of the moon or something.

  

  Hank Azaria
  • Trying
  • Single
  • Wonder

• I look at my clarinet sometimes and I think, I wonder what's going to come out of there tonight? You never know.

  

  Acker Bilk
  • Think
  • Sometimes
  • Wonder

• My acronym is WWSJD: What Would Steve Jobs Do?

  

  Aaron Levie
  • Jobs
  • Would
  • Steve Jobs

• British people might wonder 'What the hell is Kenneth Branagh doing directing 'Thor?' but the person asking that the most was Kenneth Branagh. I think he was more surprised than anyone else to find himself doing this kind of film.

  

  Tadanobu Asano
  • People
  • Wonder
  • Doing

• Wonder Woman is such an amazing character.

  

  Cobie Smulders
  • Character
  • Amazing
  • Wonder

• Toward the end of the Cold War, capitalism created a military horror: the neutron bomb, a weapon that destroys life while leaving buildings intact. During the Fourth World War, however, a new wonder has been discovered: the financial bomb. Unlike those dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, this new bomb not only destroys the polis (here, the nation), imposing death, terror, and misery on those who live there, but also transforms its target into just another piece in the puzzle of economic globalization.

  

  Subcomandante Marcos
  • World
  • War
  • Wonder

• The villains are all parts of me. For years I've been wondering what it would be like if all those negative elements were forced onto the main character's side. I can understand a character with that kind of anger.

  

  Hayao Miyazaki
  • Character
  • Kind
  • Wonder

• I was 15 when I started making music properly.

  

  Charli XCX
  • Music

• True leaders inspire people to a bigger vision.

  

  Carmine Gallo
  • Vision
  • Inspire
  • Leaders

• Folks wanna be like Will I Am not Bill I Am. They wanna be like Stevie Wonder not Steve Jobs.

  

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