will.i.am (William James Adams, Jr.) Quotes
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I'm not pessimistic about much of anything.
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I don't like being in debt, and I wouldn't borrow money for anything.
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It is not just for a few states to sit and veto global approvals.
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I did theater at Carnegie, and in Pittsburgh and New York.
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History is never antiquated, because humanity is always fundamentally the same. It is always hungry for bread, sweaty with labor, struggling to wrest from nature and hostile men enough to feed its children. The welfare of the mass is always at odds with the selfish force of the strong.
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I really believe in people putting stories out there that contain the most difficult moments because nothing to me is more lonely making than sanitized stories or airbrushed stories that kind of allied how hard it got.
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I'm obsessively detail-oriented.
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It is much easier to learn another language when you are young, enthusiastic and unembarrassed.
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We're surrounded by wonder, and yet we want more, and we want it bigger, faster, louder, better.
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Playing the villain, bringing her to life, is the most fun because there really are no rules.
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In Georgia, people had already understood that communism couldn't survive, and I came to the institute in Moscow, and people still believed in it. They were completely different people, and I found it very difficult psychologically.
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Every man who is high up likes to think that he has done it all himself, and the wife smiles and lets it go at that.
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Even a vortex is a vortex in something. You can't have a whirlpool without water; and you can't have a vortex without gas, or molecules or atoms or ions or electrons or something, not nothing.
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When I was 15, I worked at a dry cleaner because I wanted Abercrombie & Fitch jeans. My mom told me I could have $20 jeans, not $70 jeans, unless I was willing to work for them. So I did!
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I set myself up to be a bass guitarist and bass players get a lot more work than people like me.
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Unless we give part of ourselves away, unless we can live with other people and understand them and help them, we are missing the most essential part of our own human lives.
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Democracy, like the human organism, carries within it the seed of its own destruction.
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I AM NOT PAYING FOR SOME CRACKPOT OLD FOOL TO TEACH HIM MAGIC TRICKS!" yelled Uncle Vernon. Hagrid seized his pink umbrella and whirled it over his head "NEVER -" he thundered "- INSULT -ALBUS -DUMBLEDORE - IN - FRONT - OF - ME!
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The food industry is spending almost $2 billion a year marketing directly to children and teens. We know that those ads lead to children demanding certain brands, and we know that food and drink marketing gets all of us to consume more calories. If we're going to address diet-related illnesses, talking about marketing to kids is a key step. There should be places like schools that are protected sanctuaries from commercialization and from advertising, especially when it comes to kids' health.
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And finally, an intern pushing the metal show box: see the cow, the purple of the hide barely perceptible, blood seeping from the small holes punched by a .22, ears tagged with plastic. Shitting itself, despite the tranquilizers, out of terror at being nearly real.
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Professors of classics - not even a professor of English - professors of classics, they're something sacred; it's almost like being a priest.
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I've been truly protected by my uncles.
