M.I.A. Quotes
I was part of the generation that pushed the Internet. In fact, I broke as an artist in the U.S.A. because of the Internet.
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Some people are born with a vital and responsive energy. It not only enables them to keep abreast of the times; it qualifies them to furnish in their own personality a good bit of the motive power to the mad pace.
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My lesson from history is that if there is a strong moderate centrist party which can lead the country, there is no room for extremists from the right or left.
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The best thing is to look natural, but it takes makeup to look natural.
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No matter how close to yours another's steps have grown, in the end there is one dance you'll do alone.
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During this time I had the singular good fortune of being able to discuss the problem constantly with Einstein. Some experiments done at Einstein's suggestion yielded no decisively new result.
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My favorite thing about being famous... it's not really as big of a deal as everybody says it is. Being on the road is tough, doing interviews, and all the stuff. It's still pretty tough.
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I am increasingly unimpressed by works of art that require a college degree to understand. I think that art should be for everyone. And people should be moved by it.
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I don't know how to read. I get all my news from Jon Stewart every day.
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When I was in school, there was no such thing as girls' athletics.
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I might do 'X Factor' next year. It's looking good that I won't get the sack at Christmas.
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There are so many different criteria for my collecting, and I have to confess that the goalposts do shift. But obviously, with my background, I am particularly drawn to things that have been documented in contemporary magazines.
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We continue to blame the poor for their own condition. They are lazy. We do not want to know that the poorest of the poor are toddlers under three years of age.
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I'm the little dog who goes the wrong way - under the hoop.
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You can get awful famous in this country in seven days.
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One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.
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The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression.
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'Moby-Dick' has a remarkable way of resonating with whatever is going on in the world at that particular moment.
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Since the industrial revolution, cities, and especially the inner cities, were the places for the newly arrived. Voluntary immigrants seeking economic betterment, refugees, the bohemians, the artists - all of those people were crammed into densely populated neighborhoods and tenements. And as people climbed up the economic ladder they moved out, which really accelerated with the "white flight" phenomenon in the '60s and '70s.
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My entire generation has grown up in the shadow of one movie: Star Wars.
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Good art however 'immoral' is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.
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There is a trend today that would put a new robe on the prodigal son while he is still feeding hogs. Some would put the ring on his finger while he still in the pigsty. Others would paint the pigsty and advocate bigger and better hog pens.
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I was part of the generation that pushed the Internet. In fact, I broke as an artist in the U.S.A. because of the Internet.
