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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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Most kids are not dreaming of being programmers, scientists or engineers.
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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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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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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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I'm good at thinking outside the box, so much that you realise it's not a box to begin with.
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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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Electro is today's disco - making electronic music not for the sake of selling it but for sharing it and touring around the world D.J.-ing.
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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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We need creative people working with broadcasters, making smart content to inspire people to be geniuses.
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I was born and raised in the ghetto, on welfare, two minutes from homeless.
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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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If Apple's a technology company in the music industry, why can't somebody in the music industry make technology?
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Look at the world. See the problem. And solve it
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There are leaders and there are followers. Followers follow leaders and leaders follow their heart
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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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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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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 don't follow waves or trends or emotions.
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Code writers, they are my idols.
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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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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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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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When someone is denying what they are, then that's when things start to spiral down.
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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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There's no chivalry in culture any more. Sometimes you meet someone who everyone says is polite and you're like, 'Wow,' but then it's like, 'Hang on, isn't everyone supposed to be polite?'
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Things don’t have to end. They can begin again.
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But Michael Jackson didn't have perfect diction - He said 'chamone' instead of 'come on'.
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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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It's dangerous to be a child star, but it's dangerous to be a child in the ghetto, or to be a child at school being bullied.
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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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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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I don't want to tell people where to go get all my cool stuff.
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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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When you think outside of what you know, that brings out the best in you.
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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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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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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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When you think about the guys who started Twitter, and the Google guys, and the Facebook guys and the Napster guys, and the Microsoft guys, and the Dell guys and the Instagram guys, it's all guys. The girls, they're being left behind.
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Tom Jones is like igloo-cool.
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Eisenhower warned us about the military-industrial complex and the damage it could do to society.
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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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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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I can like something. You can like something. It's not an absolute.
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If you know how to freestyle, you will never have writer's block.
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If you want to be a better web hacker, hang out with a painter.
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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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What Autotune allows is for people like myself and Kanye West not to depend on the singer. Back in the Fifties, the songwriter was rendered invisible. Now the songwriter is there in the forefront.
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Pop is the most competitive form of music there is. You are always fighting to be adopted and accepted by the masses, and it's always shifting.
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