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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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Today
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World
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" If you live in a ghetto and really want not to just change your life and your family's life but change your ghetto's life, make your ghetto a good neighbourhood, learn science; try to be like Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs. "
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Family
Science
Life
" 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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" I have ADHD. I'll admit it. "
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" I don't need anyone to validate me. "
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" It's a rare combination to have someone who can write songs and sing well. "
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Someone
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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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" I know people in gangs; I could have went down that route. "
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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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" 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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Cooking
Good
" Love lasts forever. "
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Forever
Lasts
Love
" As we develop and get quicker with technology in America, it's like we're downgrading if you look at the investment in education... that's the thing that worries me. "
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Look
Me
America
" When you're a corporation, you're going to stick with what works. That's why every McDonald's is the same. "
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Same
Stick
You
" I go out partying to figure out exactly who I'm making music for. You can't just guess. "
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You
Out
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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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Listening
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Today
" My mom's never been married. I've never even seen my mom kiss a dude. "
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Been
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Never
" I can procrastinate a little bit. "
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Little
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" I will not start an initiative until I've spent my own money. Because if I spend my own money, people who want to get on board afterwards know that I am serious about it. "
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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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" Hip-hop culture is probably one of the most powerful things to come out of America in a long time - everything from the music to the art to the dance to the language. "
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Time
Dance
" 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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Good
Obesity
Education
" 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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Know
" Philanthropy is the thing that I am really excited about, and having success means I can do more. "
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Philanthropy
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" Eisenhower warned us about the military-industrial complex and the damage it could do to society. "
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Us
" 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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" 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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Business
People
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" If you would ask my mom what books I liked growing up, I liked Dr. Seuss. "
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Mom
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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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End
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Business
" I remember when I was 19, it was pretty tough. "
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" I don't want to be on stage when I'm 57, talking about... 'Let's Get It Started.' "
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