M.I.A. Quotes
I remember taking my demo to every dance person in London. People were like, 'We don't know what this is!' The first people to champion me were a club in Manchester.
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It sounds kind of stupid, but I've never not wanted to be a musician. It's been inside me since I was little so I don't know what else I would do.
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The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
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Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.
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We tend in this country to talk about Democrats and Republicans, and think there's little group over there called Independents that's maybe 2%. That is not the case, and it has not been the case for most of modern American history.
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When I wrote 'Green, Green,' it was like a really a statement of where I was at philosophically in my life.
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Some people write heavily, some write lightly. I prefer the light approach because I believe there is a great deal of false reverence about. There is too much solemnity and intensity in dealing with sacred matters; too much speaking in holy tones.
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Running back was always my favorite position.
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I got to write most of everything I said.
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Everything is about class in England, whether it's upper, lower or middle. Why should that be?
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Yes, iD is a machine vision and sensor browser for the physical world. That's what we have been working on with Coca-Cola, Verizon, Bank of America and Disney to launch content when an image is recognised.
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To say that I am pro life is just wrong. I am personally pro-choice and legislatively pro-choice.
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The 77 cents that women make for every dollar men earn makes a real difference to our families - families stretching to make every dollar count.
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Smoke machines are the best!
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Dior Couture is like art - they are the art pieces of a fashion house. Each piece is unique and made by hand.
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Fear is not a friend of mine. But it's something to have a healthy awareness of.
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It's an honor to live in and serve the great City of Los Angeles. I'm also immensely grateful for the support I've received from Ireland.
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I wasn't that hard. I wasn't that tough. I wasn't that funny – I looked like me.
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I wanted to be Beetlejuice. I watched nonstop 'Beetlejuice' and 'The Princess Bride' growing up.
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In the first years after the systemic transition, our screens showed American entertainment that had not been available before, or had been available only sporadically.
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Art is a human activity consisting in this, that one consciously, by means of certain external symbols, conveys to others the feelings one has experienced, whereby people so infected by these feelings, also experience them.
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I try to do my absolute best for the people who come see me play.
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It's an extraordinary commentary on what the Internet can do, ... opening the crossroads around the world for communication between all people.
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Sir, in carrying on your government, why should you use killing at all? Let your evinced desires be for what is good, and the people will be good. The relation between superiors and inferiors is like that between the wind and the grass. The grass must bend, when the wind blows across it.
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I remember taking my demo to every dance person in London. People were like, 'We don't know what this is!' The first people to champion me were a club in Manchester.
