will.i.am quotes

will.i.am is an American musician, producer, and entrepreneur, best known as a founding member of The Black Eyed Peas. His innovative style and collaborations have helped shape contemporary pop, hip-hop, and dance music. He is also recognized for his contributions to technology, philanthropy, and popular culture. Here are 68 of his quotes:

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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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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I'm like a mama's boy and stuff.

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I read Twitter all the time, even though I rarely tweet.

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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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Now that Obama's president, it changes inner-city youths. They can now not just dream to be Lil Waynes and 50 Cents, but they can now dream to be Obamas.

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You know, the Super Bowl is so fresh that every single commercial is even on, you know, some next-level entertainment.

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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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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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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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America has to be not just an idea but a living, breathing thing.

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

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Coming out with records when you're in a big, successful group that plays stadiums, that's scary to come out by yourself.

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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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I'm fascinated with quantum physics.

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The computer allows me to execute my ideas at the speed I think them.

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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 house.

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If you would ask my mom what books I liked growing up, I liked Dr. Seuss.

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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 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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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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When you follow your heart, you're never supposed to do things because of what you think people might say. You do it for the opposite reasons.

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