will.i.am (William James Adams, Jr.) Quotes
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I wrote seven Myron Bolitar novels in a row, and I never want to write a Myron book where he just solves a crime. Every one of them I want to be personal, and I want him to grow and change. The problem with that is, it makes the series limited, you can't write a series where a guy is always going through some kind of crisis.
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I feel there's enough seriousness in the world without seeing it in the theatre.
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You can keep going on and on about the interactions of people, which makes it a great drama and great event, and you'll always hold that special, but if you're looking at a baseball moment, the feeling you get when you win the World Series by far exceeds anything else in the game that you're able to do.
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I think there's no higher calling in terms of a career than public service, which is a chance to make a difference in people's lives and improve the world.
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I procrastinate all morning. That's when I get my office work done and answer e-mails and see what's on the Internet and do laundry.
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When you become a sannyasin, I initiate you into freedom, and into nothing else... I am destroying your ideologies, creeds, cults, dogmas, and I am not replacing them with anything else.
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If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.
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I like to make my name of songs strange.
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When you look at the lyrics of 'Sometimes When We Touch,' it's really very much an adolescent song.
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There is no question at all that Manson was sending Tex, Sadie, Katie, and Linda out on his mission of murder.
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I just consider being one of the luckiest people in the sense that creativity came to me and it flowed.
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Facts from paper are not the same as facts from people. The reliability of the people giving you the facts is as important as the facts themselves.
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I think a lot of a man's outlook in life - at least mine - is shaped by his relationship with his father.
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I do secret stand-up shows around New York. I announce and tweet this to nobody - I get onstage and I do a quick five minutes.
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It's nice to be in a situation where the two books that I write for a sort of regular monthly income are also works that I enjoy immensely, rather than them being some kind of bread and butter, do it because you have to do it.
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I do not diminish the incredible symbolic importance of a black man getting elected president. But my euphoria was a smart guy getting elected president. Maybe for the first time in my lifetime we had elected one of the thousand smartest Americans president.
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I just love to see people having a good time.
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I get to know my regular fans, and they inspire me.
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I look to my family for my support. I'm fortunate to have a big family.
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I think all good writing is a struggle. To write as well as you feel you can has to be a struggle, almost by definition, because you could always improve.
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Outright bans on plastic bags may not be the best solution, but education and incentives to get people to stop using them are necessary.
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I do think the public want to see politicians acting in a different way. What's brought young people into our campaign is that they were written off by political parties but they had never written off politics, and what we have is a huge number of young people, very enthusiastic and brimming with ideas. Those ideas have got to be heard.
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Through art and science in their broadest senses it is possible to make a permanent contribution towards the improvement and enrichment of human life and it is these pursuits that we students are engaged in.
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Not many people give you a vision of what the future will bring.
