will.i.am (William James Adams, Jr.) Quotes
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I love the immediacy of an audience being there and reacting. I'm spoiled, having grown up in theater.
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After all, film is so porous, and to my mind, so oddly occult, that I think that film itself absorbs odd energies like a living skin.
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Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.
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I was quite nervous about meeting William's father, but he was very, very welcoming, very friendly, it couldn't have gone easier really for me.
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Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.
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I have a company called Earl Campbell Foods. I got into the meat business in 1991.
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If the Soviet Union and the United States have not experienced direct military confrontations, on the other hand, they supported, armed and trained Africans, to fight other Africans.
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In this business, it's important to constantly do things that you don't know how to do. I love touring and making records, but I've learned how to do that, so sometimes you just have to dive in and try it.
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You're spoilt as an actor if you are in that small percentage that works regularly.
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In big science, the role of the individual scientist must be carefully preserved. So is the one of original ideas and of contributions.
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I was dressed like Darth Vader. Vader was my man, even with the villainy. He wore all black and had a deep voice; he reminded me of my uncle. I had a cheap mask-cape combo, the kind available at any pharmacy during October.
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I'm a very simple man. You've got to have, like, a computer nowadays to turn the TV on and off... and the nightmare continues.
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We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.
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I wouldn't give up on the U.N. yet.
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I don't drink coffee.
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If India has to achieve exponential growth, it would have to be on the back of strong growth in the manufacturing sector.
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Most interviewers are looking for a headline. They're not skilled. They're looking for shock value.
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The music field was the first to break down racial barriers, because in order to play together, you have to love the people you are playing with, and if you have any racial inhibitions, you wouldn't be able to do that.
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A face is a road map of someone's life. Without any need to amplify that or draw attention to it, there's a great deal that's communicated about who this person is and what their life experiences have been.
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I need to start honing in on projects that I want to devote my time to and not put my energies into the unattainable ones.
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Talent is being able to please people.
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Stand-up is still my favorite, but the podcast is a close second. It's so fun, and it's given me the opportunity to have three-hour conversations with people I wouldn't have otherwise been able to talk to. When I talked to Maynard Keenan from Tool, I almost couldn't believe it was happening.
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I speak to you only as an American who happens to be an American Negro and one who is proud of that heritage. We ask for nothing special. We ask only that we be permitted to compete on an even basis, and if we are not worthy, then the competition shall, per se, eliminate us.
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I don't want to tell people where to go get all my cool stuff.
