will.i.am (William James Adams, Jr.) Quotes
There's no chivalry in culture any more. Sometimes you meet someone who everyone says is polite and you're like, 'Wow,' but then it's like, 'Hang on, isn't everyone supposed to be polite?'
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If you fall off a horse, you get back up. I am not a quitter.
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I'm actually so low maintenance when it comes to my hair. It's naturally stick-straight, but I do like to use a curling iron to give my locks some life.
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If your aim is to attack the United States, it is hard to imagine a more difficult way of getting here than by posing as a refugee.
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I've asked Jobs why he didn't get an operation then and he said, 'I didn't want my body to be opened. I didn't want to be violated in that way.'
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I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.
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The people I admire unreservedly are my parents. They are the real pioneers of Africa in many ways. They were born and raised in rural Africa during the colonial period. They are the ones who came to the U.S. long before I did.
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A man builds a house in England with the expectation of living in it and leaving it to his children; we shed our houses in America as easily as a snail does his shell.
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I am not the first man who wanted to make changes in his life at 60 and I won't be the last. It is just that others can do it with anonymity.
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I think I did very well against everyone who tried to defend me.
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Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point.
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Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.
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I take certain steps to make sure I'm relevant artistically. I always have new music and a reason to be on the road. I'm not just playing 'Get By' over and over. I have 12 albums.
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When you get successful, you can do pretty much whatever you want.
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I'm a big believer in exercise. I'm a bigger believer in eating right, which is simply with plenty of fruits and vegetables. I'm not a gym girl, though. I've never had a gym membership.
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In writing lyrics - well, for me, anyway - it's about getting into character, you know? 'Who is writing this?' In the case of the original 'Thick As A Brick,' supposedly a precocious, very young child who's fantasizing about his future and the context of all the confusing elements to which school boys are subjected at that time.
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I think architects tend to believe that they can almost do anything, which is a wonderful characteristic, but in some cases you just fall flat.
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How do Ferrari know what I'm doing next year when I don't know what I'm doing next week?
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The public saw my father right out of central casting. He looked the part, acted the part... he was the part! The real life Godfather.
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Age is just a number. Who cares how old the girl is that I date?
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Sometimes writing songs is like waiting for deliveries.
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Any health care funding plan that is just, equitable, civilized and humane must - must - redistribute wealth from the richer among us to the poorer and the less fortunate. Excellent healthcare is by definition re-distributional.
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I've been playing concerts for many years, and it's still as exciting as it was the first time. I hope that shows when I'm performing.
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I just like the company of beautiful women. I have a weakness in that department.
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There's no chivalry in culture any more. Sometimes you meet someone who everyone says is polite and you're like, 'Wow,' but then it's like, 'Hang on, isn't everyone supposed to be polite?'
