will.i.am Quotes

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• I was born and raised in the ghetto, on welfare, two minutes from homeless.
• 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…
• 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.
• If you know how to freestyle, you will never have writer's block.
• We need creative people working with broadcasters, making smart content to inspire people to be geniuses.
• 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…
• Most kids are not dreaming of being programmers, scientists or engineers.
• 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…
• 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…
• If my mind's not trying to fix something or create something, I don't know what to do. It just throws me off.
• Music is my therapy and my straitjacket. Music keeps me sane and keeps my mind on something. It's fragile up there.
• When you're a corporation, you're going to stick with what works. That's why every McDonald's is the same.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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,…
• America has to be not just an idea but a living, breathing thing.
• Code writers, they are my idols.
• Coming out with records when you're in a big, successful group that plays stadiums, that's scary to come out by yourself.
• Crime and violence are the easiest emotions to reenact.

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