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will.i.am
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: March 15
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You don't have to stay in your lane when it comes to friendship or ideas.
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Every year there's an Oscar and Grammy and we celebrate those shows. We do the same in the U.S about sports schools and colleges. The same thing doesn't happen for tech and STEM.
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I'm a citizen of the U.S.A but I also travel around the world and love other countries like the UK as if it was my own. I love your tolerance and preservation of the arts.
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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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You're always moving and thinking about a whole bunch of things. But those traits work well for me in studios and in meetings about creative ideas. If you listen to the songs I write, they are the most ADHD songs ever. They have five hooks in one and it all happens in three minutes. I figured out a way of working with it.
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It's my hope to inspire kids around the world to want to be tech stars in stem subjects.
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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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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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Every election is important and each election says it's more important than the last.
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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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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 go out partying to figure out exactly who I'm making music for. You can't just guess.
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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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The Black Eyed Peas sell thousands of seats in every country on the planet. You can't get nervous. We're all succeeding in all different parts of our careers. Just because I produce Nas and John Legend and Justin Timberlake doesn't mean it will change the dynamic of the Peas.
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In future we'll have a different type of rich and poor.
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Trump affects the world in a major way.
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With unisex fashion, you know, females were doing it first. You're the reason we have unisex clothing. It's because girls said, Wait, I can wear jeans, too! I can wear a suit, too.
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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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I've been truly protected by my uncles.
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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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