will.i.am (William James Adams, Jr.) Quotes
Electro is today's disco - making electronic music not for the sake of selling it but for sharing it and touring around the world D.J.-ing.
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There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.
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I live in the moment, and I reflect later.
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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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My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.
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I like a little bit of designer, with a bit of vintage and high street mixed in. I love it when you find those one-off key pieces, which end up becoming investment pieces.
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Living in New York, for me at least, just keeps it very real and keeps my feet firmly planted on the ground.
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One of the dreams of Zionism was to be a bridge. Instead, we are creating exclusion between the East and the West instead of creating bridges; we are contributing to the conflict between East and West by our stupid desire to have more.
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Fundamentally, I do agree, certainly, people must be allowed to express their own opinions freely. Freedom is part of the essential rights of all nations.
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My music, I feel, has always been experimental, but it had got to a point where I felt disconnected from it completely. I didn't want to be a Clark Kent/Superman: I couldn't really say, 'Well, B.o.B's the old me, and Bobby Ray's the new me.' I had to just make a point.
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The Democratic Party went far to the left, I think, and left some of us stranded on the beach, so we went to the Republican Party.
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My father was a construction worker most of his life. My mother, when she came from Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, to the United States, never had a chance to go to college either and became a clerical worker. But they did nothing but build this country.
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I grew up with a pet iguana named Willy. We had a very contentious relationship. It turns out that iguanas are not meant to live in suburban homes.
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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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America slept because most Americans preferred it that way.
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It was in the Papal States that I studied the Roman Question. I traveled over every part of the country; I conversed with men of all opinions, examined things very closely, and collected my information on the spot.
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I grew up in a suburb of Ohio, in a small town, and I resonated with that small-town feeling where everybody knows your business.
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By constant contemplation of excellence, we clear our selfhood of all dross and impurities.
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I was a child when the March on Washington led by Martin Luther King occurred, and I wanted to hear what was going on. I wanted to be a part of it. I wanted to contribute in the best way I possibly could.
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The truth is that I don't work any harder than anyone else in the world. I don't work 18-hour days. I don't stay up until 4 in the morning trying to finish a line.
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My childhood memories are amazing; I had freedom in every way - but I see everything from a different perspective now that I live outside.
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The more competitive value of the dollar turned around the trade deficit.
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I take my spoken-word stuff extremely seriously because I feel like that's true writing, true lyricism.
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Electro is today's disco - making electronic music not for the sake of selling it but for sharing it and touring around the world D.J.-ing.
