will.i.am (William James Adams, Jr.) Quotes

If my mind's not trying to fix something or create something, I don't know what to do. It just throws me off.

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• I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.

  

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• Certainly, I devote my energy to both telling my personal life story and seeking self- obliteration. However, I will not destroy myself through art.

  

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• I live with my family. I moved to L.A. eight years ago, and it's the same room. But I'm looking now. I might get a condo.

  

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• I have often heard that the novel is dead. But I see novels produced, I don't know how many a week, in France. I have the impression it's carrying along quite well.

  

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• Any film is about heroism: the triumph of good over evil. If you look back at my films, you will see that as a recurring theme.

  

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• We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

  

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• The work on ants has profoundly affected the way I think about humans.

  

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• The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.

  

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• I hate wars and violence but if they come then I don't see why we women should just wave our men a proud goodbye and then knit them balaclavas.

  

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• I'm really anti-option, so computers have been my nightmare with recording. I don't want endless tracks; I want less tracks. I want decisions to be made.

  

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• It's funny; people get so doctrinaire about music. It should be the last thing you don't have an open mind about.

  

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• My wife attends a Presbyterian church.

  

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• I enjoy building something good and having a successful product and making money.

  

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• The more choices we give patients affected by depression, the better we will serve them.

  

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• The sci-fi movies I grew up with, the metaphor was very rich, and they used to really mean something: David Cronenberg's films, or John Carpenter's films, or the Phil Kaufman and Don Segel versions of 'Invasion Of The Body Snatchers,' or George Romero's early zombie films.

  

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• He told me once that there is no better faith than a wounded faith and sometimes I wonder if that is what he was doing all along - trying to wound his faith in order to test it - and I was just another stone in the way of his God.

  

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• The evening wind made such a disturbance just now, among some tall old elm-trees at the bottom of the garden, that neither my mother nor Miss Betsey could forbear glancing that way. As the elms bent to one another, like giants who were whispering secrets, and after a few seconds of such repose, fell into a violent flurry, tossing their wild arms about, as if their late confidences were really too wicked for their peace of mind.

  

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• I've never played Scots or got the chance to do my Scottish accent. I'm always trying it out in auditions, but they always say no. I'd love to act in a Scottish accent for once.

  

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• When it comes to the fundamental issues that humanity faces, I think that solutions involve shifting consciousness towards cooperation.

  

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• I enjoyed every bit of the evening. I may not drink scotch or smoke a cheroot again, but I shall always cherish the fact that I did those things. The adventure is well worth the disappointing experience.

  

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• If my mind's not trying to fix something or create something, I don't know what to do. It just throws me off.

  

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