M.I.A. Quotes
If you're talking about coexisting and tolerance then you have to live by example, and you can't have shiny people all the time everywhere, which is what breeds that sort of thinking - this is better than this, that is better than that.
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I've never left them to go do a film. No, we all go together. I could never leave them. My kids are my whole world.
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Healthy is in the eye of the beholder.
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I don't think auditioning will ever faze me again after the 'Grease' TV experience. It was fierce. There were thousands of people auditioning in four cities. I flew from home in Minneapolis to audition in L.A. I waited in line all day. I arrived at 7 A.M. and wasn't seen until 6 P.M.
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We're going to lose more species, acidify the oceans more, do damage that it will take millions of years - if not longer - to unwind. Exactly how much damage will we do? How deep will those scars run? We don't know yet. But we will turn the ship.
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I've always exuded some connection to my sexuality even as a kid. So to me, being sexy means staying connected to that part of me.
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No good actor ever stops learning. He is constantly evolving.
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All of world's eyes are trained on the Games. So winning at that stage is heroic. It is a different feeling altogether and cannot be explained in words.
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You can't write a story about a mental hospital in the United States without facing the grand example of 'Cuckoo's Nest.'
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Business today consists in persuading crowds.
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The public has lost the habit of movie-going because the cinema no longer possesses the charm, the hypnotic charisma, the authority it once commanded. The image it once held for us all - that of a dream we dreamt with our eyes open - has disappeared.
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Circle are praised, not that abound, In largeness, but the exactly round.
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I love all my scoop children. But consistency and persistence is really my aim.
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Albums are like diaries. You go through phases, technically and emotionally, and they reflect the state that you're in at the time.
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I feel very English. I'm proud of it. I wanted there to be a thread connecting everything, the songs, clothes, artwork, even the string arrangements. It all creates a certain atmosphere.
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Dating is kind of hard. Like dinner or something like that. Like a forced awkward situation is very strange. Especially for me, for some reason.
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I just want to be a little more real. Maybe I'm a little bit darker than others.
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Improving oversight of hedge funds and other private funds is vital to their sustainability and to our economy's stability.
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My sister and I said, Dad, are you doing to do anything about that? And he mentioned treatments other people sent him that he'd been working on. So we thought it would be kind of cool to give these guys a real script.
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It's true I always like to mix femininity and something a bit masculine. It's the reason I love skirts with high heels and tights, and no handbag because I love having my hands in my pockets.
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I had had some months of depression. Not serious enough to keep me from work. So, I guess you'd call that a mild depression. It was becoming worse. And I was being treated for it with anti-depressants.
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One of the profound effects of economics in our day is that the people with the money and the power have embraced the guilt-free, external-less, everything-will-turn-out-okay-in-the-end philosophy of economics in order to justify their own evil works. And the economists, for the most part, have sucked up to that money.
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If you've got a bazooka, and people know you've got it, you may not have to take it out.
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I think that what women need to hear is that there is life after failure.
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If you're talking about coexisting and tolerance then you have to live by example, and you can't have shiny people all the time everywhere, which is what breeds that sort of thinking - this is better than this, that is better than that.
