will.i.am (William James Adams, Jr.) Quotes
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I was blacklisted because of this activity, so I'm not a typical anything.
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I can find in my undergraduate classes, bright students who do not know that the stars rise and set at night, or even that the Sun is a star.
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Hockey, honestly, was my first love. The excitement, the fast pace, the intensity of the game... I still love it to this day.
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I seemed to have been born reading.
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I am not going to talk about my personal life anymore. You have to learn that lesson sometime.
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I like singing all songs, really, but I find that writing social commentary comes naturally.
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I have had a fascination with death, I think, that might be considered genetic for a long time. My father had the same affliction, I guess.
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I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon it, as upon a thread of silk, opalescent dawns and saffron sunsets.
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My daughter is the most normal towards me. For her, I am just her mom. I am just a regular mom, and the actor comes after that. If she likes something that I am wearing, she tells me, and if she doesn't, she still makes it a point to let me know.
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I have always done exercise because I was a dancer, and it is probably good for you. I have done yoga consistently.
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People don't teach you how to handle the workload that comes from a little bit of success, and it's something I'd never had to handle, because I'd been rejected for so long.
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Our most noted satirists are true columnists, and their opinions can be worth more than any well-documented expose.
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The best part about being friends with your parents is that no matter what you do, they have to keep loving you.
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Without discipline, there is no Marine Corps.
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It's not a bad time to be me.
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I wanted to explore the connections between different kinds of music.
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Where there is clarity, there is no choice. And where there is choice, there is misery. But then, why should I speak, since I know nothing?
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"I think you have to be ready to quit within yourself. If you're not, it doesn't matter what rehab you go to."
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That's critical to me, the community. When I was 12 years old, I had a mental breakdown; I went berserk for a long time. I felt rejection from the white community. Couldn't understand why the pigmentation of my skin kept me from doing. Everybody always told me "You're going to be something." And of course, I began to raise questions about why it is that white folks treat us the way they do. The breakdown was very vivid. I just all of a sudden felt like I had been overcome by a train.
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My father told me once not to expect anything from anybody so I wouldn't be disappointed. If somebody was nice and did nice things for me, I should be overjoyed, but I shouldn't go through life expecting it, which is very good advice.
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The human heart has a sigh lonelier than the cry of the bittern.
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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 don't follow waves or trends or emotions.
