M.I.A. Quotes
What really drives me mad about art is that, in America, the only thing you can do is to take it apart.
M.I.A.
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The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.
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Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.
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I tell people to look at me and understand that everybody first told me that I couldn't be a 6-foot, 9-inch point guard, and I proved them wrong. Then they told me I couldn't be a businessman and make money in urban America, and I proved them wrong. And they thought I couldn't win all these championships, and I proved them wrong there as well.
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Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination.
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From America's schools, religion has been relentlessly purged. No prayers, no Bibles, no Christian symbols, no Ten Commandments.
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I like America, and I think probably the American people like me.
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Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
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The shortcomings of America's political leaders do not stop at our borders.
Ralph Nader
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Fear of carbs, of gluten, of everything - we've distanced ourselves from the beauty of food, the art of it. It makes me sad when people say, 'Oh, I don't eat gluten. I don't eat cheese. I don't eat this. So I eat cardboard.'
Olivia Wilde
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My motivation for being a good drummer was born out of fear, which, in a way, seems so antithetical to what art should be.
Damien Chazelle
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With my history of concussions, the WWE wants to protect me, so I've had to take a lot of neurological testing.
Daniel Bryan
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I love to play characters who are stuffy and nerdy who either then have a dark side or are pushed to a breaking point.
Andy Daly
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When I was starting to get noticed as an actor in the 1970s for something other than the third cowboy on the right who ended up dying in every movie or episode, Burt Reynolds was the biggest star in the world.
Bruce Dern
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I'm a champion, and I believe that if you're a champion, you can't be afraid to go out there and test yourself against the greatest challenges.
Jon Jones
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The tropical rain forests are a telling example. Once cut down, they rarely recover. Rainfall drops, deserts spread, the climate warms.
James Lovelock
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What really drives me mad about art is that, in America, the only thing you can do is to take it apart.
M.I.A.
