Pharrell Williams Quotes

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• My job is to train hard, go fight, and do my best.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Job
  • Best
  • Fight

• I'm not shy about trying to find what truth there is in any genre, whether that be an action piece, a sci-fi piece, a small indie film, or a play. I'm open to it all.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Trying
  • Truth
  • Small

• It was very unusual, because normally the producer requests the test to determine whether they want to hire someone or not. Olivia was concerned about playing a seventeen year old.

  

  Randal Kleiser
  • Want
  • Old
  • Test

• I think the most expensive thing I've bought thus far is my Rolex.

  

  Hailey Bieber
  • Think
  • Far
  • Expensive

• What I don't miss is living in a small town where everybody knows you, your family, and what you ate for breakfast.

  

  Nancy Carell
  • Family
  • Small
  • Breakfast

• My father had very little formal education.

  

  Daniel Berrigan
  • Father
  • Education
  • Little

• As Mayor, I will use my experience to make San Francisco a place where small businesses can thrive.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Experience
  • Small
  • Place

• Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.

  

  Dale Evans
  • Together
  • Song
  • Relationship

• In general, being likeable is more about being interested - rather than interesting. Indeed, a good way to convince someone that you are an awesome conversationalist is to simply shut up and let the other person talk.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Up
  • Good
  • Interesting

• When I was 20, I thought anyone in the music business over 25 is past it. Then at 30, you think anyone still doing it at 35 is ridiculous. Suddenly, you find yourself at 48 and still doing it, so I don't know what to say, really.

  

  Vince Clarke Erasure
  • Music
  • Business
  • Past

• I always feel that most people out there who aren't sure if the gym is really for them aren't prepared to pay and find out.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • People
  • Always
  • Find

• I can't go into a mob scene and sense the mood and the attitude of the crowd. I can't conduct man-on-the-street interviews or even get reactions that I can be sure are honest, because they know who I am.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Sense
  • Scene
  • Crowd

• I'm fascinated by the way Diane Arbus saw things. She came from this fashion background and then twisted it.

  

  Raf Simons
  • She
  • Way
  • Fashion

• If a company knows it may have to pay a large amount of money if it poses an unreasonable threat to others, it will have a strong incentive to act better.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Money
  • May
  • Strong

• At the high school level, the coaches get these kids in revenue-driven sports and take them away from baseball. There's so much pressure on these kids to even play spring football. We need to get the African-American players back in the game, which I think would make it not only a better game, but more exciting and entertaining for everyone.

  

  Pat Gillick
  • School
  • Kids
  • American

• I didn't have a role model. My role model was Michael Jordan. Bad role model for an Indian dude... I didn't have anyone who looked like me. And by the time I was old enough to have what could have been a role model, they were my peers. Aziz Ansari is my peer. Kal Penn is my peer.

  

  Utkarsh Ambudkar
  • Time
  • Bad
  • Me

• When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.

  

  Larry Mullen, Jr. U2
  • Music
  • Business
  • Deep

• Every night we all felt grateful to be there, stunned at the amount of people that are there, and stunned at their reactions. They go crazy; they know every lyric from eight years of age to eighty. It's unbelievable.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • People
  • Age
  • Night

• In a confrontation with the politics of power, the soft center has always melted away.

  

  Lord Hailsham
  • Power

• I've worked for over 11 years in the Muslim world, and the one thing that I feel like I've learned - who's to say if it's true or not true, it's just my experience - is that men don't like to see really strong, aggressive women in that area of the world.

  

  Lynsey Addario
  • World
  • Men
  • Women

• I don't have a therapist, so I use me as my own therapist when I'm making the music.

  

  Tyler, The Creator
  • Music

• The plain fact is that education is itself a form of propaganda - a deliberate scheme to outfit the pupil, not with the capacity to weigh ideas, but with a simple appetite for gulping ideas ready-made. The aim is to make 'good' citizens, which is to say, docile and uninquisitive citizens.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Good
  • Education
  • Simple

• The Balkanization of the media means that nobody is having a single conversation with a single set of agreed-upon facts and assumptions the way you had as recently as the 90s.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Single

• Everything that we experience every day leaves a long-lasting impression.

  

  Pharrell Williams N.E.R.D.
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  • Experience