will.i.am (William James Adams, Jr.) Quotes
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The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.
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Music is very spiritual, it has the power to bring people together.
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We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in colour and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types.
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The strange anthropological lesson of social media is that human beings, if given a choice, often prefer to socialize alone.
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I often look at women who wear great jeans and high heels and nice little T-shirts wandering around the city, and I think, 'I should make more of an effort. I should look like that.' But then I think, 'They can't be happy in those heels.'
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I'm personally more struck by visual things more than musical.
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Anytime I hear songs that are so honest, whether they make the person who's singing it look good or not, there's a level of honesty that resonates with people.
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I love biographies. I'm especially into stuff about Hollywood in the '40s and '50s. I find it fascinating and terrifying.
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A book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us.
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I grew up in a culture of motorbikes. So I like racing just fine. Quite a lot, actually. That was when I was a boy in Australia. And I never really made the jump to cars after that.
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The most important thing, I've found, is to be self-reliant.
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Anytime you can be a part of something that hopefully tries to make a cultural contribution, I love the idea of that.
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When you are only one vendor, there is a very low rate of innovation. You think the old architecture is just fine, and it can just happily exist for many years.
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Lord of yourself, uncumbered with a wife.
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The zip on the pitch is very zippy
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No, in country money, the country scale of gain, The requisite lift of spirit has never been found....
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Yeah, you know, I performed occasionally. I was in such despair because I just - if I didn't have my music to connect with, I couldn't figure out what I was supposed to be doing. There was never a 'B' plan here; it was just this. So it took me a long time to find my way.
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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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When you write a book you're not allowed to wave hands too much, but you don't even have hands to wave—you have to wave pages.
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I used to refer to my photos as free radicals - and maybe that has to do with this idea of navigating history. I think of the works as having this dormant illness that can really latch on to different histories. So they can exist in a world pretending to be neatly encapsulated, already framed, and fixed. But actually they are these parasites dependent on the failure of modernist history and on multiplicity.
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To be always doubting your ability to get what you long for is like trying to reach east by traveling west.
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I'm from east LA. I don't see colour.
