will.i.am famous quotes

Most kids are not dreaming of being programmers, scientists or engineers.
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#Dream #Kids #Scientist

When you follow your heart, you're never supposed to do things because of what you think people might say. You do it for the opposite reasons.
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#Heart #Thinking #Opposites

There are no problems that can’t be solved. The world is too full of options. If you can’t solve the #problem, it’s because you haven’t found the right option ... But the answer is always there.
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#Answers #World #Problem

If countries were people, England and France would be old men. Italy would be dead. Compared with them, America is in its 20s.
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#Country #Travel #Men

We need creative people working with broadcasters, making smart content to inspire people to be geniuses.
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#Smart #People #Creative

I go out partying to figure out exactly who I'm making music for. You can't just guess.
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#Party #Nightlife #Figures

If Apple's a technology company in the music industry, why can't somebody in the music industry make technology?
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#Technology #Apples #Music Industry

Tom Jones is like igloo-cool.
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#Igloos

There are five issues that make a fist of a hand that can knock America out cold. They're lack of jobs, obesity, diabetes, homelessness, and lack of good education.
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#Jobs #Hands #America

How about no one's ever going to outsell Michael Jackson at selling records because the record industry is over. Game over. There's no more record stores. With no more record stores there's no more pressing plants. With no more pressing plants, there's no more charts.
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#Games #Records #Plant

I like all the families in the U.K. But what I like about the idea of the royal family is... they seem like they're well educated and there's something admirable about them. And the Queen... she reminds me of my grandma.
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#Queens #Grandma #Ideas

I'd like to see Apple and Dell factories be brought to the inner cities; in every project in America, there's some factory there, and it's abandoned, and I'd like to see those factories open and bring jobs to America.
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#Jobs #Cities #Apples

If you live in a ghetto and really want not to just change your life and your family's life but change your ghetto's life, make your ghetto a good neighbourhood, learn science; try to be like Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs.
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#Jobs #Ghetto #Zuckerberg

If you are a chef, no matter how good a chef you are, it's not good cooking for yourself; the joy is in cooking for others - it's the same with music.
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#Joy #Cooking #Matter

Disco is the first technology music. And what I mean is that 'disco' music is named after discs, because when technology grew to where they didn't need a band in the clubs, the DJ played it on a disc.
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#Mean #Technology #Clubs

You know, the Super Bowl is so fresh that every single commercial is even on, you know, some next-level entertainment.
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#Next #Entertainment #Next Level

There's an entry point to any relationship.
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When someone is denying what they are, then that's when things start to spiral down.
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#Spirals

When I got into junior high school, that's when my mom let me dress how I wanted to dress. Up to that point I wore suits to school all the time.
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#Mom #School #Juniors

We need to forge a whole new energy and American Dream.
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#Dream #American Dream #Energy

There's only one type of music and that's good music, no matter what genre it is.
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#Matter #Type #Genre

Kids today aren't listening to music audio-only. They're picking up a CD and looking at the lyric sheet and wondering why the pictures aren't moving around. Who wants to do that? It's like Bam Bam Flintstone hanging with the dinosaurs vs. Elroy Jetson who's flying around space. If I'm a kid, I wanna be kicking it with Elroy.
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#Moving #Kids #Cds

Now that Obama's president, it changes inner-city youths. They can now not just dream to be Lil Waynes and 50 Cents, but they can now dream to be Obamas.
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#Dream #Cities #President

Traveling in Europe made me understand that America has an island mentality: No one exists except us. There's a whole other world out there, but most Americans - all they know is America, the marketing plan.
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#Travel #Europe #Other Worlds

But I will wear white - the whitest white! - purest most pristine white! - through the dark terrible days of winter - as no man of our time will ever dare.
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#Dark #Winter #Men

It's never a waste of time or money to invest in yourself, no matter the source. True wealth begins inwards and emits its light outward into everything else, including the people you surround yourself with.
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#Light #People #Matter

Waste is only waste if we waste it.
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#Waste

Things don’t have to end. They can begin again.
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#Ends #Begin Again

If you really want change, you really want it to be inclusive, where everyone's included, otherwise you're just going to have more of the same in the future.
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#Want

Every young person is going to be inspired to be a maker from now on. It's like how everyone used to want to be a musician, an actor, an athlete -- but a maker is what people are going to want to be.
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#Athlete #People #Actors

I am trying to encourage kids to do something that isn’t yet on their mind because it is not in popular culture. Popular culture tells you 'music, music, sports, sports.' It neglects the importance of a STEM education.
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#Sports #Kids #Mind

I was in the projects dreaming about doing music and now I’ve done music. When I had nothing to when I had something I still have this driving force that's fueling me every day and that's making ideas reality…
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#Dream #Reality #Ideas

The world doesn’t need another opinion, they need another person taking action. So I take action because I see the call and respond.
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#World #Needs #Opinion

I can't sing “I Believe I Can Fly”. I sing that horrible. But I can sing “I Gotta Feeling” good. I wrote it for my capabilities. So I Gotta Feeling is just about let me make a song to inspire people to have a good time.
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#Song #Believe #People

We have no control over the outcome of anything. Like the planet and global warming, we don't control that. If politicians want a war we don't control that. Acts of terrorism, we can't control them.
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#War #Want #Outcomes

We all rely on technology to communicate, to survive, to do our banking, to shop, to get informed, but none of us knows how to read and write the code.
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#Writing #Technology #Banking

There's no chivalry in culture any more. Sometimes you meet someone who everyone says is polite and you're like, 'Wow,' but then it's like, 'Hang on, isn't everyone supposed to be polite?'
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#Wow #Culture #Chivalry

The music industry isn't converging toward dance music. Dance music is dance music. It's been around since disco - and way before disco. But there's different versions of dance music.
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#Way #Different #Music Is

Politics are about preserving relationships at the end of the day, and it has nothing to do with the greater good for humanity. It's just all about business.
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#Humanity #The End Of The Day #Ends

The computer allows me to execute my ideas at the speed I think them.
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#Thinking #Ideas #Computer

Pop is the most competitive form of music there is. You are always fighting to be adopted and accepted by the masses, and it's always shifting.
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#Fighting #Shifting #Accepted

I was born and raised in the ghetto, on welfare, two minutes from homeless.
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#Ghetto #Two #Homeless

Coming out with records when you're in a big, successful group that plays stadiums, that's scary to come out by yourself.
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#Successful #Play #Scary

Code writers, they are my idols.
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#Idols #Code

America has to be not just an idea but a living, breathing thing.
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#America #Breathing #Ideas

When you think about the guys who started Twitter, and the Google guys, and the Facebook guys and the Napster guys, and the Microsoft guys, and the Dell guys and the Instagram guys, it's all guys. The girls, they're being left behind.
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#Girl #Thinking #Guy

If you live in a good neighborhood, you drive home and there's a bank. There's grocery stores and big houses - but no motels. What that tells you psychologically is you protect your money and buy good things for your family to eat in your nice big house.
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#Nice #Home #House

If I didn't mould my reality then I'd still be in the ghetto where people like me are supposed to stay. You have to dream your way out of the nightmare.
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#Dream #Ghetto #Reality

You can get your money and you put it in the bank, or you can put it in the youth. You can put it in our future.
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#Youth #Our Future

When you're a corporation, you're going to stick with what works. That's why every McDonald's is the same.
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#Mcdonalds #Sticks #Corporations

Music is my therapy and my straitjacket. Music keeps me sane and keeps my mind on something. It's fragile up there.
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#Mind #Music Is #Sane

If my mind's not trying to fix something or create something, I don't know what to do. It just throws me off.
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#Mind #Trying

I don't want to hope anymore. I don't think we should hope anymore. We hoped enough. Now we have to do. We all have to do now.
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#Thinking #Want #Enough

It's dangerous to be a child star, but it's dangerous to be a child in the ghetto, or to be a child at school being bullied.
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#Stars #Children #School

If you know how to freestyle, you will never have writer's block.
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#Block

Electro is today's disco - making electronic music not for the sake of selling it but for sharing it and touring around the world D.J.-ing.
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#World #Today #Sake

You can rule ignorance; you can manipulate the illiterate; you can do whatever you want when a people are uneducated, so that goes in line with corrupt business and corrupt politics.
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#Ignorance #People #Lines

Crime and violence are the easiest emotions to reenact.
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#Violence #Emotion #Crime

Eisenhower warned us about the military-industrial complex and the damage it could do to society.
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#Military #Damage

I read Twitter all the time, even though I rarely tweet.
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#Tweet

I'm fascinated with quantum physics.
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#Physics #Quantum Physics #Quantum

I'm good at thinking outside the box, so much that you realise it's not a box to begin with.
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#Thinking #Boxes #Think Outside The Box

I'm like a mama's boy and stuff.
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#Boys #Stuff #Mama

I've been truly protected by my uncles.
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#Uncles

If you would ask my mom what books I liked growing up, I liked Dr. Seuss.
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#Mom #Growing Up #Book

Most of these people who are celebrities now don't do anything to deserve it, so by that fact alone, I don't want to be one.
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#People #Want #Facts

My attention span is very short.
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#Attention #Attention Span

My mom's never been married. I've never even seen my mom kiss a dude.
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#Mom #Kissing #Married

I have a pro tools rig that I carry in my backpack.
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#Tools #Rigs

I don't follow waves or trends or emotions.
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#Trends #Emotion #Wave

Hip-hop was fast, originally. It was always fast music.
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#Hip Hop #Hips #Hops

Here's the problem: Profiteers haunt America, and for everything we try to control, someone's going to profit from it, more than you control it.
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#America #Trying #Problem

Every single song that I've listened to is in my memory forever.
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#Song #Memories #Forever

I rescue families who are losing their homes because they have no jobs and they can't pay the mortgage and the banks are foreclosing on their homes.
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#Jobs #Home #Pay

I was born and raised in East Los Angeles by a single mom who had three biological kids and adopted four more. I never met my dad.
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#Mom #Dad #Kids

Teaming up with the scientists, researchers and computer programmers at Intel to collaborate and co-develop new ways to communicate, create, inform and entertain is going to be amazing.
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#Way #Computer #Scientist

Hip-hop is limiting itself and that also goes for editorially. Magazines and websites are the gatekeepers of what people think hip-hop is, but they actually end up limiting what hip-hop can be.
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#Thinking #People #Hip Hop

You know, I do music. If you look under the hood of the industry I'm in, it's all based on technology. From radio to phonographs to CDs, it's all technology. Microphones, reel-to-reels, cameras, editing, chips, it's all technology.
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#Technology #Editing #Cds

But Michael Jackson didn't have perfect diction - He said 'chamone' instead of 'come on'.
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#Perfect #Diction #Said

If I were a painter, I would paint beautiful bodies - I would paint nipples, and I would paint Bibles. Am I going to say, 'I'm not going to paint this woman's neck because people will think I just want to lick on necks?' Please! That's not what art is about.
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#Beautiful #Art #Thinking

When I wrote 'My Humps,' I said, 'This is the stupidest thing ever,' but in a good way. I always wondered what it must be like to be a girl, always gettin' pulled on. Maybe she's the smartest genius on the planet, but she's rackin' double Ds with a 26-inch waist and a big ol' ***** and no one's ever gonna see her like that because that's the way the world is today.
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#Girl #Genius #World

Not many people give you a vision of what the future will bring.
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#People #Giving #Vision

Great coders are today’s rock stars.
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#Stars #Rocks #Today

The maps are really like a filter. They filter information for you to make better decisions on where you are going and what to do,
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#Decision #Information #Filters

What Autotune allows is for people like myself and Kanye West not to depend on the singer. Back in the Fifties, the songwriter was rendered invisible. Now the songwriter is there in the forefront.
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#People #Singers #West