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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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will.i.am
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: March 15
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I can like something. You can like something. It's not an absolute.
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I read Twitter all the time, even though I rarely tweet.
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In future we'll have a different type of rich and poor.
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Look at the world. See the problem. And solve it
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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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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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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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If you look at the world now its one that we couldn't have imagined in 1997! That I would be able to hit a button and a taxi will show up? We wouldn't have believed that everything is disposable!
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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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