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If you want to be a better web hacker, hang out with a painter.
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will.i.am
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: March 15
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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I don't want to tell people where to go get all my cool stuff.
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You could use artificial intelligence to build a system around postcodes and income, which could lead to racial profiling.
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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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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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When you think outside of what you know, that brings out the best in you.
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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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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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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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My mom's never been married. I've never even seen my mom kiss a dude.
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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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Most kids are not dreaming of being programmers, scientists or engineers.
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