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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.”
“If you would ask my mom what books I liked growing up, I liked Dr. Seuss.”
“I was born and raised in East Los Angeles by a single mom who had three biological kids and adopted four more. I never met my dad.”
“It should be mandatory that you understand computer science.”
“I rescue families who are losing their homes because they have no jobs and they can't pay the mortgage and the banks are foreclosing on their homes.”
“I don't want to preach to people.”
“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.”
“My favorite game is Madden. That's it. I'm a Madden addict. I go at it.”
“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.”
“If Apple's a technology company in the music industry, why can't somebody in the music industry make technology?”
“I have a pro tools rig that I carry in my backpack.”
“I don't need anyone to validate me.”
“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.”
“Philanthropy is my job.”
“Eisenhower warned us about the military-industrial complex and the damage it could do to society.”
“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.”
“We need to forge a whole new energy and American Dream.”
“Philanthropy is the thing that I am really excited about, and having success means I can do more.”
“There's nothing wrong with white if it's all right.”
“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.”