will.i.am (William James Adams, Jr.) Quotes
Eisenhower warned us about the military-industrial complex and the damage it could do to society.
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The first thing I tried to do in the months after losing my mother was to write a poem. I found myself turning to poetry in the way so many people do - to make sense of losses. And I wrote pretty bad poems about it. But it did feel that the poem was the only place that could hold this grief.
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Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you're flying high at first, but it won't take long before you feel the impact.
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I love being a part of country music. I love going out and... doing things for the first time for country music. I always enjoy that.
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There were wonderful moments when I was singing for the first time in the Olympia Theatre and I was pregnant with my son, which was very, very strange for a singer.
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Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science.
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Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.
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There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.
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Writing is literally transformative. When we read, we are changed. When we write, we are changed. It's neurological. To me, this is a kind of magic.
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The concept of monogamy is an inheritance of a medieval time, when family would carry the tradition of the name and certain privileges. It's a way of organizing society, perhaps.
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We're just going to be ourselves, and we're just going to cross our fingers and hope that people like it. Because that's all you can do.
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Eazy-E is going to remain Eazy-E. But I will not portray Compton as a bad city.
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My mother's nickname for me is 'Positive Patrick.' I like to live up to that title.
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I love baseball, and the door remains open.
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Sometimes when you're drunk you can see better.
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Long before we understand ourselves through the process of self-examination, we understand ourselves in a self-evident way in the family, society and state in which we live.
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Having a credible existence in the private sector frees people to be able to be better public servants. You're less concerned with... toeing the party line and more concerned with doing what is right.
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I think when I first straightened my hair, I was a teenager. I don't believe that I was consciously doing it to look white or to be on television. It never crossed my mind. All of the girls in my neighborhood got perms and their hair straightened. But I know that historically it was to assimilate and there are some people who do it for that reason.
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I remember having this friend in school who said she didn't like the Beach Boys. And in that moment I knew we couldn't be friends anymore.
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I think for some reason people are drawn to stories of all kinds, for some reason they land harder when they are "true." And yet in fiction, I think there is a lot of deeper truth, too.
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Somali is turning into a desert. Rwanda, you can hardly find a place to plant a potato, it's so crowded.
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I suppose I am one of those lucky people who eats what they like and doesn't gain too much weight.
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I just want to be healthy and stay alive and keep my family going and everything and keep my friends going and try to do something so that this world will be peaceful. That is the most ambitious and the most difficult thing, but I'm there trying to do it.
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If I died on the battlefield, then that was the way it was supposed to be.
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Eisenhower warned us about the military-industrial complex and the damage it could do to society.
