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

The maps are really like a filter. They filter information for you to make better decisions on where you are going and what to do.

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• I submerged myself in all the information that I could find about Idi Amin. I mean, before I left Los Angeles, I was studying Kiswahili. I was working on the dialect. I was studying every documentary and tape of him that I could find - not just visual, but also audiocassettes, even in other languages when he was speaking in other dialects.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Myself
  • Information

• The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Life
  • Education
  • Information

• I really don't have the time to spend much time online, I do have web tv, which I use when I need information.

  

  Gabrielle Reece
  • Time
  • Need
  • Information

• I am disillusioned enough to know that no man's opinion on any subject is worth a damn unless backed up with enough genuine information to make him really know what he's talking about.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Opinion
  • Information
  • Talking

• Europe, the U.S., and their allies can defeat the terrorists of Islamic State, or ISIS. The first step is making the decision to fight back. The next step is understanding that drones and standoff missiles will not be enough. Ground troops will be needed.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Understanding
  • Decision
  • Fight

• We were hunter-gatherers of information, and we moved from that to becoming farmers and cultivators of information.

  

  J.P. Rangaswami
  • Information
  • Farmers
  • Were

• Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.

  

  Abbie Hoffman
  • Important
  • Information
  • More

• The Internet is programmable information. The blockchain is programmable scarcity.

  

  Balaji Srinivasan
  • Information
  • Blockchain

• The chef can be very innovative, but the decision is made by the customer.

  

  Barry Lam
  • Decision
  • Customer
  • Chef

• It is reason, and not passion, which must guide our deliberations, guide our debate, and guide our decision.

  

  Barbara Jordan
  • Passion
  • Decision
  • Debate

• Crazy old people are our entire source of polling information.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Crazy
  • Information

• Trade isn't about goods. Trade is about information. Goods sit in the warehouse until information moves them.

  

  C. J. Cherryh
  • Information
  • Trade
  • Sit

• Movements begin when oppressed people make - and keep remaking - a deeply inward decision to stop consenting to external demands that contradict a critical inner truth, the truth that they are worthy of respect.

  

  Parker Palmer
  • People
  • Truth
  • Respect

• No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision.

  

  Barbara Tuchman
  • Government
  • Decision
  • Moment

• The judiciary is entitled to finally resolve a dispute. Not every decision is right.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Decision
  • Right
  • Judiciary

• I'm a Libra. That means that I can make a decision, but only after much thought.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • Decision
  • Thought
  • I Can

• I'm sure that was the right step, even though, formally speaking, it may seem disadvantageous for a president to resign. But, looking into what is happening today and what is going to happen in the future, I think history will show I made the right decision.

  

  Eduard Shevardnadze
  • May
  • History
  • Future

• I've always loved pinup art, and I've always enjoyed drawing women. I think it was a conscious decision that has resulted in me getting almost exclusive work on comics where the main character is female.

  

  Adam Hughes
  • Work
  • Women
  • Art

• Part of the joy of looking at art is getting in sync in some ways with the decision-making process that the artist used and the record that's embedded in the work.

  

  Chuck Close
  • Work
  • Art
  • Joy

• My life forces me to imagine what hers would have been if what happened to me had happened to her, what use she would have made of my luck. And her life continuously appears in mine, in the words that I've uttered, in which there's often an echo of hers, in a particular gesture that is an adaptation of a gesture of hers, in my less which is such because of her more, in my more which is the yielding to the force of her less.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • My Life
  • Imagine
  • Force

• In 2012, Vladimir Putin returned to the presidency after a four-year, constitutionally imposed hiatus. It wasn't the smoothest of transitions. To his surprise, in the run-up to his inauguration, protesters filled the streets of Moscow and other major cities to denounce his comeback.

  

  Franklin Foer
  • Up
  • Comeback

• It was hard saying goodbye to the 'iCarly' family just because we have become such a family, but I do get to see them all the time, and I stay in touch with them.

  

  Jerry Trainor
  • Time
  • Family
  • Goodbye

• The maps are really like a filter. They filter information for you to make better decisions on where you are going and what to do.

  

  will.i.am
  • Decision
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