will.i.am (William James Adams, Jr.) Quotes
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I always appreciate people's opinions, but sometimes I have to take a step back and remember why I'm writing and what I want to do with it. Shutting out the voices is difficult but it's been good for me.
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I think people know that I love food, but maybe people don't know that I cook a lot.
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I was quite a successful evangelist. I've had people write to me and say, 'Gee, I'm a Christian because of you and I hear you're not a Christian, that's shocking to me.' I don't take these things lightly, but that's who I am. I can't change it.
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We wrote verses that condemned us, with no hope of pardon, to the most bitter solitude.
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I was brought up by great parents and great grandparents who told me, 'Never, ever think that you're better than anyone else or that what you do is so important that the world won't miss you once you're gone,' and I kind of translate that into the stardom thing.
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It would be nice to say the rich people, the fancy people, all behaved like bastards and the poor slobs all came through like heroes. But as a matter of fact, sometimes the poor slobs behave like slobs and the great, noble, privileged characters come off very well, indeed.
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I would not have been here if I was not from a political family.
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Species evolve to meet the environment. An intelligent species changes the environment to suit itself. As soon as a species becomes intelligent, it should stop evolving.
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Let us not act out of fear and misunderstanding, but out of the values of inclusion, diversity, and regard for all that make our country great.
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I know that I'm not the easiest person to live with. The challenge I put on myself is so great that the person I live with feels himself challenged. I bring a lot to bear, and I don't know how not to.
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I had to help to coax the performances and I really enjoyed that extra responsibility.
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As the Bible inculcates upon man but one duty in respect to sin, and that is immediate repentance, abolitionists believe that all who hold slaves, or who approve the practice in others, should immediately cease to do so.
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I hate the word gothic but I would like to try doing something like that. A gothic sound, not rock, but gothic. There's a difference.
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We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.
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I literally paid my way through the University of Texas with my umpiring.
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Any person, brought into the presence of this fact, stops for a few moments and remains pensive and silent; and then generally leaves, carrying with him forever a sharper, keener sense of our incessant motion through space.
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Food tells you everything about the way people live and who they are.
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The whole 'SmackDown' roster has a chip on its shoulder.
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Do not waste your time looking for an obstacle - maybe there is none.
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Transplanting the ballet to the United States is like trying to raise a palm tree in Dakota.
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Whatever class and race divergences exist, top cats are tom cats.
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The schedule is crazy - it's all suitcases and hotel rooms and you just go nonstop. It's a crazy lifestyle, it really is.
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I hope that doing truthful portrayals of people in a variety of circumstances gives people a kind of subterranean link to those characters.
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Tom Jones is like igloo-cool.
