will.i.am (William James Adams, Jr.) Quotes
Traveling in Europe made me understand that America has an island mentality: No one exists except us. There's a whole other world out there, but most Americans - all they know is America, the marketing plan.
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If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun!
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We lived in Atlanta for a couple of years, and had a lot of fun, but my best work happens when I isolate myself. It's all about turning inward.
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Tell me what you'd like to hear me sing. I'll sing whatever you like, after which I'll take up a collection, if you don't mind.
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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.
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
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I was involved with drama departments since the 5th grade. I played at it. It was an escape.
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It's hard to have people talking about you and trashing you in the media and saying they think your career is over... and you are only 25.
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I like to do things quickly because I'm easily bored.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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I don't like to define my music. To me, music is pure emotion. It's language that can communicate certain emotions and the rhythms cuts across genders, cultures and nationalities. All you need to do is close your eyes and feel those emotions.
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As scary as it is, I like making real, direct eye contact with people from the stage. In a sense, it's like modeling: that feeling of locking in and projecting some kind of emotion to try to captivate people.
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Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.
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Without understanding yourself, what is the use of trying to understand the world?
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In all honesty, titles are an embarrassment to me.
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I think the tone of the show has certainly changed over the years, because it's really, really hard to do something different when you have a show going on as long as this has.
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You can cite me for contempt, Your Honor. I don't care.
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Enjoy every sandwich.
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Islam is fixed, stable, ordered and disciplined, and so are Muslims.
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That's a huge part of being a human being: looking for love and finding a partner in this world. When you constantly play characters who don't have that life, it feels incomplete and not totally human.
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The best cookies of all in the world are the ones my daughter Sally makes. They come out all uniform with nice little air holes.
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Being a singer is a natural gift. It means I'm using to the highest degree possible the gift that God gave me to use. I'm happy with that.
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In what way can a man believing in God cease believing due to his personal vanity? There are only two ways. The man should either begin to think himself a rival of God, or he may begin to believe himself to be God.
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I felt very proud to be part of a music scene that was changing the face of commercial music and rock music internationally, but I also felt like it was necessary for Soundgarden - as it was for all of these Seattle bands - to prove that we deserve to be on an international stage, and we weren't just part of a fad that was based on geography.
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Traveling in Europe made me understand that America has an island mentality: No one exists except us. There's a whole other world out there, but most Americans - all they know is America, the marketing plan.
