Pharrell Williams Quotes
I learn a lot from my experiences and collaborations. Most of my collaborations are meant for me to learn.
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I want young people to be hesitant to glorify war and to demand of their leaders justification for the sacrifices they ask of our citizens.
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Bill Cosby, you know, he's a delightful guy.
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The one thing I do know is that I'm the best Taylor Hawkins drummer there is, and that is all I can hope to be. And when it comes to music, musicianship and skill, there is no such thing as better or worse because so much is personal opinion, and I can see that now.
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We have to believe in free-will. We've got no choice.
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The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists.
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By admitting your inadequacies, you show that you're self-aware enough to know your areas for improvement - and secure enough to be open about them.
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I've always really enjoyed sharing my work with others. I find it really hard if I don't think the work will exist outside of my own apartment.
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When you sample something, you're using the crutch of borrowing chords and melodies from a song that's already great, that's already stood the test of time, that's already special. When you're trying to do it all from scratch, you're writing something brand new that has to stand on its own.
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I love acting.
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I don't think I'm a good dancer.
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I've sorta learned that I'm so tired of taking myself so seriously. It's so great to show up at work and truly enjoy every word you say.
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In a novel, I think you have a contract with the reader to make the character representative - of a moment in history, a social class... for instance, I wanted to make the boy in 'A Boy's Own Story' more like other gay men of my generation in their youth and not like me.
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In the past 10 years, I've looked at life as this Pollock stuff. And now I'm almost in the post Pollock phase.
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For longer than I've been involved in the political process, the Republican establishment has claimed to want to provide an alternative for the black community, yet party elite refuse to show up for the game.
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I don't like leaving work behind. I hate the idea that something might be happening on the drawing board at home that I am going to miss.
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I'm not a slave to the recording industry. I have the freedom to make an album that I want to make and do it the way I want.
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The creature known as man is of course highly intelligent, he's capable of manufacturing almost anything from rumours to test-tube babies and yet he destroys two to three species every day. This is the absurdity of man.
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I worked so hard to be so versatile in so many different things. There’s just not a lot of girls who can do ballet and flips and break dance and crazy hip-hop moves. So I would really encourage young dancers and actors to work to be as versatile as possible.
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The deepest instinct is to want to do something enduring, something worthwhile, and to be engaged by that, whether one achieves it or not.
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Solomon: Your entry in Wikipedia says that your work has inspired many students to begin careers in computing and artificial intelligence.Hofstadter: I have no interest in computers. The entry is filled with inaccuracies, and it kind of depresses me.Solomon: So fix it.Hofstadter: The next day someone will fix it back.
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Brave men don't belong to any one country. I respect bravery wherever I see it.
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The master enjoined not austerity, but moderation. If we truly enjoyed things, he claimed, we would be spontaneously moderate. Asked why he was so opposed to ascetical practices, he replied, 'Because they produce pleasure-haters who always become people-haters - rigid and cruel.'
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A condition of youth, your own importance. The mark you'd make upon the world. But a man learns sooner or later. You take your little niche and make it your own. You ride out the time as best you can.
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I learn a lot from my experiences and collaborations. Most of my collaborations are meant for me to learn.
