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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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Collection: Hope
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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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Collection: Good
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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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Collection: Business
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Romantic love is painful.
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Collection: Romantic
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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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Collection: Technology
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Disco is the first technology music. And what I mean is that 'disco' music is named after discs, because when technology grew to where they didn't need a band in the clubs, the DJ played it on a disc.
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Collection: Technology
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There are no problems that can’t be solved. The world is too full of options. If you can’t solve the #problem, it’s because you haven’t found the right option ... But the answer is always there.
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Collection: Answers
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When you think outside of what you know, that brings out the best in you.
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Collection: Thinking
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It's never a waste of time or money to invest in yourself, no matter the source. True wealth begins inwards and emits its light outward into everything else, including the people you surround yourself with.
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Collection: Light
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There are leaders and there are followers. Followers follow leaders and leaders follow their heart
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Collection: Heart
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You don't have to stay in your lane when it comes to friendship or ideas.
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Collection: Ideas
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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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Collection: Needs
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Waste is only waste if we waste it.
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Collection: Waste
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I don't wanna believe that racism exists, but the more I wish it away, the more I realize it's in our system.
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Collection: Believe
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Look at the world. See the problem. And solve it
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Collection: Looks
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Things don’t have to end. They can begin again.
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Collection: Ends
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I don't want to tell people where to go get all my cool stuff.
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Collection: People
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I was in the projects dreaming about doing music and now I've done music. When I had nothing to when I had something I still have this driving force that's fueling me every day and that's making ideas reality.
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Collection: Dream
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Have different people in your fold. Have cross-disciplinary collaborations.
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Collection: People
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When I wrote 'My Humps,' I said, 'This is the stupidest thing ever,' but in a good way. I always wondered what it must be like to be a girl, always gettin' pulled on. Maybe she's the smartest genius on the planet, but she's rackin' double Ds with a 26-inch waist and a big ol' ass and no one's ever gonna see her like that because that's the way the world is today.
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Collection: Girl
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In future we'll have a different type of rich and poor.
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Collection: Different
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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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Collection: Winter
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If you want to be a better musician, hang out with a computer coder.
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Collection: Coders
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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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Collection: Sports
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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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Collection: Income
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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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Collection: Country
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Fashion is becoming the same thing as our devices.
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Collection: Fashion
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You have to have non-traditional ways of collaborating. But better is relative.
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Collection: Way
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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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Collection: Country
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We forget to thank the scientists that began these musical inventions and systems. The guy that invented the phonograph and gramophone - Thomas Edison!
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Collection: Guy
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I can like something. You can like something. It's not an absolute.
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Collection: Like Something
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I can't sing “I Believe I Can Fly”. I sing that horrible. But I can sing “I Gotta Feeling” good. I wrote it for my capabilities. So I Gotta Feeling is just about let me make a song to inspire people to have a good time.
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Collection: Song
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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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Collection: Beautiful
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Every young person is going to be inspired to be a maker from now on. It's like how everyone used to want to be a musician, an actor, an athlete -- but a maker is what people are going to want to be.
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Collection: Athlete
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The way young people are joining communities online, and agreeing and separating themselves and creating their own facts about things like vaccination, is worrying.
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Collection: Creating
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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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Collection: Song
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I love the Asian countries.
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Collection: Country
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Why not Bill Gates for president? There are so many businesses' that empower charities. How many men give away all their money to charities? Why not them for President?
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Collection: Men
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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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Collection: Girl
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I'm from east LA. I don't see colour.
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Collection: East
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I love India, Russia and touring has made me many friends abroad.
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Collection: Russia
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Regulation has never really worked unless it's hate speech libel etc.
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Collection: Hate
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It's ironic that this amazing invention of the Internet has made information gathering easier available than ever, but that this platform also helps spread misinformation.
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Collection: Ironic
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Great coders are today’s rock stars.
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Collection: Stars
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But Michael Jackson didn't have perfect diction - He said 'chamone' instead of 'come on'.
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Collection: Perfect
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If you want to be a better web hacker, hang out with a painter.
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Collection: Want
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Folks wanna be like Will I Am not Bill I Am. They wanna be like Stevie Wonder not Steve Jobs.
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Collection: Jobs
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The maps are really like a filter. They filter information for you to make better decisions on where you are going and what to do.
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Collection: Decision
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Although, okay, in Scotland, the boys wear the skirts. But as far as pop culture, women were on the forefront of the unisex movement and I'm grateful to you.
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Collection: Grateful
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The only colour I see is this wonderful green and blue planet.
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Collection: Blue