will.i.am (William James Adams, Jr.) Quotes
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I came to live in Shepperton in 1960. I thought: the future isn't in the metropolitan areas of London. I want to go out to the new suburbs, near the film studios. This was the England I wanted to write about, because this was the new world that was emerging.
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When you work with a legend as I do, it's wonderful. There's so many things I've learned working with Keith. He's so patient, not only with me, but with everyone in our crew and with the audience and with the game. He has a style that is so easy and will never be copied.
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As an author, I really hate a reader like me. There's no loyalty.
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I still think in this country, and this might surprise you, the one thing that George Bush said as president that I do agree with, I love that phrase, 'the soft bigotry of low expectations.'
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I didn't know Jack Kennedy that well, but Bobby was a hero to me.
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Yoghurt cuts sweetness and richness, tempers spice, and makes a dish sing.
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The Obama administration has provided almost no public information about the NSA's compliance record.
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It was to do with information management. The intention was to dramatise it.
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Producing all my own songs and refusing to go to the hot producer. That's the biggest risk I've taken so far.
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Street protests in Saudi Arabia might warm our hearts, but they could easily lead to $250 a barrel oil and a global recession.
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I will concede to you one thing - 'Hustler' is offensive, even to the point of being iconoclastic. That's our purpose - to be offensive.
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As far as I'm concerned, 'whom' is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler.
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I still feel that in India we look upon sports as a recreational activity - which it is - but people have to understand that there is a career in sports. It's not just necessary to be a doctor or a lawyer or an engineer, as most of us Indians appear to think that our children should grow up to be.
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My house borders horse farms, and I can look out my window and see the horses and the new colts. It's really peaceful.
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As a director on 'The Office,' there's a tremendous weight that comes with directing features. I was being asked to direct a show that had already won an Emmy for Best Comedy. Steve Carell and the cast had already won the Screen Actor's Guild Awards.
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The progression of emancipation of any class usually, if not always, takes place through the efforts of individuals of that class.
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My management team are all women. Most of the people at labels I liaise with are all women. It's pretty much all women all the time.
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I miss Broadway, what little there is on Broadway now.
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When I first hit the scene, it was just a lot of go, go, go, go, go. I have a lot of natural energy anyway, but it was over the top.
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I'm not against sentimentality. I think you need it. I mean, I don't think you get a true picture of people without it in writing... It's a kind of poetry, it's an emotional poetry, and, to bring it back to the literary scene, I don't think anything is true that doesn't have it, that doesn't have poetry in it.
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Out into the cool of the evening strolls the pretender. He knows that all his hopes and dreams begin and end there.
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I observe the world and the people surrounding me.
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When one feels no shame in telling a deliberate lie, there is no evil, I tell you, he will not do.
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The only colour I see is this wonderful green and blue planet.
