M.I.A. Quotes
I come from a generation where you put the art out and had the luxury to sit back and watch the world deconstruct it, and that was valued. Unfortunately now the work lives in a weird context.M.I.A.
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It's good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practice, good timing and fortuitous social relations. Everything can't be personalized.
Barbara Kruger -
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
Oscar Wilde -
In Gnosticism, the physical world did not ultimately matter - which meant physical suffering did not matter either. Seeking 'enlightenment' meant cultivating an attitude of detachment, even indifference.
Nancy Pearcey -
I'm the best in the world; thank you, Jesus, for that.
Rafael dos Anjos -
Glory is attained from hard work, step by step.
Ma Long -
I believe love at first sight is possible. Centuries of literature and art and beauty has been dedicated to that idea, so who am I to argue, even if I've never experienced it?
Maggie Grace
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Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
Pablo Picasso -
However careful a tramp may be to avoid places where there is abundant work, he cannot always succeed.
W. H. Davies -
To be black in the Baltimore of my youth was to be naked before the elements of the world.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
A performance art piece is unprecedented. It is difficult to censor since it has a good possibility of never being done before.
Jack Bowman -
Right now I am trying to be in a place of calm, a place where I can chill out and then handle the chaos of life better. You don't just get it overnight; you have to work at it. It's a daily struggle.
Jackee Harry -
I'm really proud of 'Oceans 12.' Of course, you do an 'Oceans' movie, you get known all over the world. It's an incredibly powerful medium: It's a Hollywood-identified blockbuster.
Vincent Cassel
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The drills we do, where you're telling kids to memorize things, don't actually work. What works is engaging them and letting them do things and discover things.
Mae Jemison -
I'm one of the lucky few who never had to face the whole 'Oh, you've had a baby, and now work will have to suffer' bit. It just wasn't a big deal when I got married and had a baby.
Malaika Arora Khan -
Women can be two different people - one person at home, another at work.
Karin Slaughter -
I think by the time I was born, my parents had pretty well run the gauntlet with their kids. The novelty had kind of worn off by the time the twelfth child was born. I was lucky to get fed and changed, picked up and taken to school.
Owen Hart -
I've never seen hard work fail.
Zach LaVine -
I did a whole lot of work before taking up my first movie. From TV commercials to Telugu films, I learnt a lot from them all.
Yami Gautam
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The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.
Wallace Stevens -
The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.
Mark Twain -
I'm so sick of people misunderstanding Asians in America and what we're about.
Eddie Huang -
You know why they think I'm reclusive? I don't do the Hollywood stuff. I've never been on the circuit.
Eddie Murphy -
I come from a generation where you put the art out and had the luxury to sit back and watch the world deconstruct it, and that was valued. Unfortunately now the work lives in a weird context.
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