will.i.am (William James Adams, Jr.) Quotes
It's dangerous to be a child star, but it's dangerous to be a child in the ghetto, or to be a child at school being bullied.
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I've never been able to understand what they mean by 'Pinteresque,'. I'm sure it's indefinable.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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Russell Brand is lovely, even though he's a weirdo.
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I try not to picture a reader when I'm writing. It's like trying to make a great table but not picturing anybody sitting at it.
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One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.
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This business is based on numbers, and the numbers show that it's worth investing in female-driven and female-directed films.
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Suspicion and doubt lead to animosity and hatred.
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If writers, like comedians or singers, could only hear themselves bombing as they worked, it's likely that certain books would be cut short after the first few leaden sentences.
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China needs a powerful Europe, but Europe can only be strong if each and every one of its members attains rapid economic development.
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When team members trust each other and know that everyone is capable of admitting when they're wrong, then conflict becomes nothing more than the pursuit of truth or the best possible answer.
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Forty percent of my portfolio is in the U.S. In the rest of the world, most of the places I invest in or invested in are Brazil, Russia, Germany with a little bit of Turkey, China, India, France and Israel sprinkled in there.
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It's easy for me to get along with chess players. Even though we are all very different, we have chess in common.
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I don't really think about anything too much. I live in the present. I move on. I don't think about what happened yesterday.
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I think back a little bit when President Bush was elected President and what kind of economy he inherited from the Clinton administration. The economy was going down. It was not doing well.
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It's not my goal to be a famous actor.
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I simply wanted to get through college as quickly as humanly possible. I had no interest in extracurricular activities or anything that required me to be social. I was allergic to people.
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They defended the grains of sand in the desert to the last drop of their blood.
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I'm an entrepreneur. I'm married to an entrepreneur. So I haven't just sipped the entrepreneurship cool-aid, I bleed this stuff.
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By empowering a woman, we empower a child. By educating a girl child, we make it possible for her to grow up to become an empowered woman.
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In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune.
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Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.
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I'd never seen anything like it in my life. Someone so blatantly challenging the ideas of race and gender and sexuality. In a way, it was comparable to David Bowie, except that Prince brought that to the black community.
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It's dangerous to be a child star, but it's dangerous to be a child in the ghetto, or to be a child at school being bullied.
