will.i.am (William James Adams, Jr.) Quotes
You're always moving and thinking about a whole bunch of things. But those traits work well for me in studios and in meetings about creative ideas. If you listen to the songs I write, they are the most ADHD songs ever. They have five hooks in one and it all happens in three minutes. I figured out a way of working with it.
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I don't like the word 'experiment' in the context of art in general. It implies something immature, unfinished, something entertaining for a moment before it becomes irrelevant.
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I voted for Barack Obama.
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Fun wouldn't be the right word... it was the most difficult, challenging, physical, extraordinary stretch I've ever had to make, in all those wild regards.
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Fashion is a language, for sure, and it is a reflection of society.
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Part of Michael's uniqueness, I think, comes from the fact that he worked with music. He had a tape which he gave me with many different compositions, really eclectic. These pieces of music were sources of inspiration.
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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Playing different characters in different films helps keep you excited about what you do. It always seems like a whole new adventure.
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In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.
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The prayers of cowards fortune spurns.
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I firmly believe that the mission of religion in the 21st century must be to contribute concretely to the peaceful coexistence of humankind.
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Every city is always changing, on its own trajectory.
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Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
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The Arab representatives and their followers were not interested in the persecuted millions throughout the world; they were fixed on a political agenda that distracted the world from their own serious shortcomings in the human-rights department.
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I almost got a psychology degree, I almost got a philosophy degree. I kept changing it so they couldn't make me graduate. I studied anthropology and eastern religion, epistomology, and astronomy... I took every interesting course I could find for nine years.
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When people see an actor speak, they think they know him or her, whereas I'm just a face or a body to them.
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Girls shouldn't drink because their bodies are not made for drinking and smoking.
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Keratin can be very colorful, as we see in birds. We'd expect dinosaurs to be very colorful because they basically invented the characteristics we see in birds.
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I think the biggest change has been realizing I now have three children.
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If people believe in your material, they will do whatever it takes to get it done. Even if they don't, but you make it as awesome an experience as possible, they will help you reach your goals.
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I would rather eat broken glass and drink iodine than do the dishes.
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For the drover's life has pleasures that the townsfolk never know.
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The job of the evangelist is never easy.
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No formal course in fiction-writing can equal a close and observant perusal of the stories of Edgar Allan Poe or Ambrose Bierce.
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You're always moving and thinking about a whole bunch of things. But those traits work well for me in studios and in meetings about creative ideas. If you listen to the songs I write, they are the most ADHD songs ever. They have five hooks in one and it all happens in three minutes. I figured out a way of working with it.
