M.I.A. Quotes
I already feel that I am making a political statement by sticking around in music, when I am doing it so differently to everyone else.
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When we manage a restaurant, we start making money from the first day. When we own a place, it's often five years before we earn the first penny that is clean of debt.
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I was in New York. I had been doing theater for many years, and then I got hired to a little part - they weren't calling it an extra, but I didn't have lines. It was a 'featured' part.
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Sometimes when I visit schools, kids will interview me for the school newspaper. They ask me questions and my answers tend to go on and on, and they try to write down everything I'm saying as quickly as they can. And one day, a kid holds up her hand and said, 'Do you think you could just answer 'yes' or 'no?' Aren't kids wonderful?
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I am not saying we are categorizing Ellen White in the biblical context of a false prophet.
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There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend.
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I'm really thankful to God, man. Like now, I'm really making a real comeback with my group. With or without a record, with or without a movie. And behind all the negative press behind this movie.
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If I get to a place early in the morning, I try to walk around by myself. I still try to find cool places to go to, like a record store in St. Louis or some restaurant in Chicago.
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Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.
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I tried college and I hated that. I seem to quit everything I do.
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I want to have my desperate need for personal success shrunk, not enlarged.
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I was raised in New York City and raised in the New York City theater world. My father was a theater director and an acting teacher, and it was not uncommon for me to have long discussions about the method and what the various different processes were to finding a character and exploring character and realizing that character.
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Wal-mart... do they like make walls there?
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A bad hair day for me is when it gets flat and greasy.
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I think I did very well against everyone who tried to defend me.
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At times, some journalists see nothing in the people apart from an opportunity to make material gain. They see them as consumers to whom we sell commodities at huge profits that keep our bank accounts growing.
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The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.
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When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him.
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I take care of myself and take antioxidating supplements suggested by my best friend and first fan - he takes care of my Internet presence - Doctor Mario Rosario Porzio. I eat well - in fact, very well.
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Film acting is really the trick of doing moments. You rarely do a take that lasts more than 20 seconds. You really earn your spurs acting onstage. I needed to do that for myself. I would hate to say at the end of everything that I never did a stage play.
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When I won gold in Athens, I said to my wife Cath, who was pregnant, 'This baby of ours will never want for anything.' There was real pride in that - but it just didn't happen.
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When I say 'hip-hop is dead,' basically, America is dead. There is no political voice. Music is dead.
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From the peak in 2007 to the trough in 2009, Americans lost $11 trillion of net worth for households and businesses.
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The Democratic Party is getting very angry, and that came through clearly in this election.
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I already feel that I am making a political statement by sticking around in music, when I am doing it so differently to everyone else.
