M.I.A. Quotes
Madonna did amazing songs. She had an amazing sense of style, without a stylist. And she was flawed, and sometimes she admitted it. I'll fight the fight for Madonna. I think she should send me some chocolates or something to thank me.
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It is human nature to hate the man whom you have hurt.
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I was very influenced by movies; I was very influenced by a world that had a sense of dream.
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I think I've been around for a while. But I still have to pay my dues.
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Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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All performers get on stage because they need to feel love from an audience. I might appear confident, but those three seconds before I get out there, I'm a mess. But I have to take the risk; otherwise, I'd be miserable and would feel like I wasn't seeing through my personal destiny.
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President Obama's over in Indonesia when guys like me were at a paper route. President Obama, I don't know what experience he had at that same age when he was in Indonesia. So I think it's hard for him to grasp that America entrepreneurial spirit.
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Young people do not watch television; they are on the Internet.
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I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.
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I never try to follow a trend or fashion.
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The old bastions of the post-communist regime collapsed before my very eyes. The monsters who had kept Ukraine in a criminal state left the stage.
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If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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You have to be able to generate usable energy without greenhouse gas emissions, and you have to be able to do it cheaply if you want people to choose that approach. That means new technologies.
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My partner has to have good sized bones.
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You can tell a lot about a person just by watching their facial expressions. But there are times when it's best to hide your feelings, especially at work.
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In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.
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I have a band that I started with a buddy of mine, a Vietnam veteran pal named Kimo Williams from Chicago.
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The effort of every time I put out a video, it was like, 'Okay, I've got to put it on my Facebook, I've got to put it on my website, what's the view count now? What's the view count now? What's the view count now?' You get obsessive with it.
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Being honest with you, it's not the 'great' wall of China. It's an all right wall. It's the 'All Right Wall of China.'
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Millions of Americans are standing up and saying, 'We want our country back!' Republicans, Democrats, Independents, will not go down the path of Greece, we will not go quietly into the night.
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It's a weird thing to say you want people to be sick of your song, but I guess that's what happens if your song goes really well.
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Sometimes you have to step away from what you love in order to learn how to love it again.
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I have a weird vision of relationships because my parents have known each other since second grade, and they got married right out of college.
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Madonna did amazing songs. She had an amazing sense of style, without a stylist. And she was flawed, and sometimes she admitted it. I'll fight the fight for Madonna. I think she should send me some chocolates or something to thank me.
