Quotes by will.i.am

About will.i.am:

William James Adams Jr. is an American singer, songwriter, rapper, entrepreneur, actor, musician, record producer, and philanthropist. He is best known as a founding member of the hip hop and pop band The Black Eyed Peas, with whom he has received seven Grammy Awards, eight American Music Awards, a Billboard Music Award, a Teen Choice Award, two MTV Video Music Awards and three World Music Awards.
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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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Hip-hop culture is probably one of the most powerful things to come out of America in a long time - everything from the music to the art to the dance to the language.

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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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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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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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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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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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My mom's discipline worked out perfectly. I wouldn't change a thing.

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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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Why shouldn't a child look to want to be a political figure, to change our nation, to lead us the right directions?

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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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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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As we develop and get quicker with technology in America, it's like we're downgrading if you look at the investment in education... that's the thing that worries me.

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

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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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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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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 ho...

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Not many people give you a vision of what the future will bring.

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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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Author Bio

  • Namewill.i.am
  • DescriptionAmerican singer-songwriter
  • BornMarch 15, 1975
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionSinger-songwriter; Actor
  • AwardsDaytime Emmy Award