Pharrell Williams Quotes
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There is a fundamental question we all have to face. How are we to live our lives; by what principles and moral values will we be guided and inspired?
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I think some people think I'm, like, anti-label, and I'm not. I just wanted to sign a deal when the time was right. I'm anti being shot out of a rocket when you're not ready and the songs and image aren't there.
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Knowing constitutional law helps one at the opera. The trial in 'Billy Budd,' as example, invokes the fugitive slave clause of the U.S. Constitution.
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Playing evil is just not interesting. I don't think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they're doing evil stuff. That's the scary part.
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The best part of being blonde is forgivable momentary lapses of common sense.
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The personal things should be left out of platforms at conventions. You can argue yourself blue in the face, and you're not going to change each other's minds. It's a waste of your time and my time.
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I really had a problem with being 'the man.' I'm past it now, but that was my insecurity. I ran from that. I was cool with being No. 3 on the call sheet or No. 2.
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You could argue that 'Sweeney Todd' was romantic, if you looked closely at it, but it didn't impart that to its audiences. But it's large, and it's melodramatic, and it's a style I like to work in periodically.
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I love having my hoop earrings. Just regular gold hoops.
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If you go to Africa and you're white, you're probably not going to get that much work either. But the fact is that there is a longer history of black integration in the U.S. I don't have any resentment about this: I did the maths, calculated it against my ambition and decided to leave England.
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Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.
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My general take on American music since 1969 is that it's just getting stiffer and people are getting more uptight - audience, performance, and palace guard.
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I don't think that the Grammys are in any way a just way of grading music.
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Honesty and loyalty are key. If two people can be honest with each other about everything, that's probably the biggest key to success.
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I would say I've always lived creativity, but now I - I do it with an intention that's got a completely different power.
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No Arab ruler will consider the peace process seriously so long as he is able to toy with the idea of achieving more by the way of violence.
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Many people see technology as the problem behind the so-called digital divide. Others see it as the solution. Technology is neither. It must operate in conjunction with business, economic, political and social system.
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I don't compose, actually. I just record. I'm the opposite of a composer in my way of working. I'm more instinctive.
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Many young artists, they look at the art world and think they can make a lot of money.
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Yeah, we went to England to do a show and I got off the plane and I couldn't write my name or hold my hand up.
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Because her voice is, it's like the muscles and it develops all the time. That was the fantastic thing for us.
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I really just try to focus on my job, which is to be an actor, and outside that, the cards fall where they may, and on not getting caught up in how people react to certain things. That's a death trap creatively.
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I've been really clear that my first job as leader of the Labour Party and co-leader of the labour movement is to engage with our base.
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I love what I do, I love my job.
