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.
Quotes to Explore
-
It is human nature to hate the man whom you have hurt.
-
I was very influenced by movies; I was very influenced by a world that had a sense of dream.
-
I think I've been around for a while. But I still have to pay my dues.
-
Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new.
-
It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
-
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.
-
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.
-
Young people do not watch television; they are on the Internet.
-
I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.
-
I never try to follow a trend or fashion.
-
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.
-
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
-
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.
-
My partner has to have good sized bones.
-
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.
-
In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.
-
I have a band that I started with a buddy of mine, a Vietnam veteran pal named Kimo Williams from Chicago.
-
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.
-
It is every intelligent man's experience that evildoing recoils on the doer sooner or later.
-
A movie that makes me cry every time is 'Billy Elliot.' That scene where he's dancing in the hall, and his dad walks in. And the first time his dad can see how amazing he is dancing, but he's so conflicted with kind of his own feelings towards it. Oh, it's so emotional.
-
My worlds collide. When one things happens, it just starts a domino effect - everything else goes on.
-
I've had fans do some pretty awesome things... I once had a fan do a mock proposal for me in Mumbai, inside a McDonalds... and I've had fans give me some precious things. I had one fan give me her mother's ring; I've gotten some pretty intense stuff. And I always get drawings and scrapbooks from fans, which is also pretty cool.
-
There's a place for all types of country music as long as there is honesty and realness and a real human experience for the fans.
-
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.
