will.i.am (William James Adams, Jr.) Quotes
The world doesn’t need another opinion, they need another person taking action. So I take action because I see the call and respond.will.i.am
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I live in southern Appalachia, so I'm surrounded by people who work very hard for barely a living wage. It's particularly painful that people are working the farms their parents and grandparents worked but aren't living nearly as well.
Barbara Kingsolver -
For me, writing a song, I sit down and the process doesn't really involve me thinking about the demographic of people I'm trying to hit or who I want to be able to relate to the song or what genre of music it falls under.
Taylor Swift -
I think what television and video games do is reminiscent of drug addiction. There's a measure of reinforcement and a behavioural loop.
Walter Becker Steely Dan -
People perceive games as being for kids, and I think that perception is going to change. Time is going to take care of that. I mean, we've already won. Games have won; it's inevitable.
Warren Spector -
There are times, especially when I was just getting into PC gaming, where I spent way less time playing than obsessing about the quality of the play.
Palmer Luckey -
Brandon Boyd of Incubus is hot, but he's too pretty.
Rachel Perry
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There needs to be a place in the church or just outside - there needs to be a place where people feel free to ask questions without being put upon, where they feel free to ask difficult, challenging questions to voice their skepticism.
D. A. Carson -
For all of the continued awareness of systemic violence and oppression, there isn't a lot of talk about that psychological toll of racism, at least in white circles and white media.
Tavi Gevinson -
Remember that no relationship is a total waste of time. You can always learn something about yourself.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr. -
I tell people marriage is a compromise, and so are renovations.
Candice Olson -
Listen, we're still selling stardom. That doesn't go away because MTV decides they can't play videos or they want to program themselves more as a traditional T.V. station. Vevo and YouTube are like MTV online, and on demand.
L.A. Reid -
The more people learn about the proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, the worse it looks.
Frances Beinecke
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Islam is fixed, stable, ordered and disciplined, and so are Muslims.
Abu Bakar Bashir -
Sexiness, particularly in movies, is the chess game in the 'Thomas Crown Affair'. It's, it's, I don't know, but Faye Dunaway comes up a lot in that thinking. It's the subtlety of sexiness. The moment you try to be sexy, then it's not.
Daniel Craig -
It's not all silliness, as interactive SXSW is filled with aggressive learning, discussing, and a whole lot of futurizing.
Kara Swisher -
I have a strange relationship with influences because mine are mostly literary or painters or poets, who I'll even quote. I don't do tributes to cinema.
Xavier Dolan -
Madrid is not as big as London, but it is true when you are coming from a big city like Madrid, nothing is going to surprise you, and I am very happy to move to a city like London. It is a big city, and you can do everything you want with the respect that the English people always have.
Fernando Torres -
I'd love to work with Michael Buble, with Tony Bennett, with Damian Marley, with Andrea Bocelli.
Kat Dahlia
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The Jew is at once alienated and indestructible; he is in exile from his own country and in exile even from himself, yet he survives the annihilating fury of history.
Delmore Schwartz -
I write because writing is something that I have to do. And it doesn't matter whether people like it or not. When I write, I feel the pressure and anxiety that come with taking an empty piece of paper and trying to fill it with something from your own consciousness.
Wayne Dyer -
My dad always told me that the best way to get somebody to get at you is to talk bad about them to somebody else.
T-Pain -
Men who have a lot of charm have it in place of something real that you are eventually going to want from them and find that they do not have.
Merrill Markoe -
The world doesn’t need another opinion, they need another person taking action. So I take action because I see the call and respond.
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