Will Young
Will Young
William Robert "Will" Youngis an English singer-songwriter and actor who came to prominence after winning the 2002 inaugural series of the British music contest Pop Idol, making him the first winner of the worldwide Idol franchise. His double A-sided debut single "Anything Is Possible" / "Evergreen" was released two weeks after the show's finale and became the fastest-selling debut single in the UK. Young also came in fifth place in World Idol performing his single "Light My Fire"...
ProfessionPop Singer
Date of Birth20 January 1979
CityWokingham, England
When people ask where I studied to be an ambassador, I say my neighborhood and my school. I've tried to tell my kids that you don't wait until you're in high school or college to start dealing with problems of people being different. The younger you start, the better.
We were trying to transform America, not triumph over white folk.
Nike has always been a business about excellence and achievement.
The man with courage is a majority.
On the soft bed of luxury many kingdoms have expired.
Both the brightness and the spectrum of the X-rays are very different from what theory predicts.
The commercialization of sport is the democratization of sport.
I had to get a second passport in a hurry.
There is a sense in which the United States ambassador speaks to the United States, as well as for the United States. I have always seen my role as a thermostat rather than a thermometer. So I'm going to be actively working... for my own concerns. I have always had people advise me on what to say, but never on what not to say.
Some kind of affirmative action is important in a democracy and for economic competitiveness and national security. The Army was the first to realize that you had to have desegregation of a military to have it working properly.
I believe in humanitarian capitalism, and there are good people on Wall Street.
Freedom is a struggle, and we do it together. Not only together as black citizens, but black and white together.
For most of the world, civil and political rights... come as luxuries that are far away in the future.
In a sane, civil, intelligent and moral society, you don't blame poor people for being poor.