M.I.A. Quotes
In 2004, I went onstage for the first time. They put a mike in my hand and pushed me out the door into the crowd. I did the three songs I had recorded and got out. It was the worst day of my life.
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But what you realise after you've been in the business for a while is that people develop opinions about you that don't have anything to do with your music, they like or dislike you for a million reasons, they like or dislike you for your last record.
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People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
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Just because you are different does not mean that you have to be rejected.
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Michael Jordan changed so much in basketball, he took his power to make a difference. It's so much going on in music right now and somebody has to make a difference.
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Things that happen in Wyoming are things that wouldn't happen in a big city - we've got bears, we've got a lot of shotguns - in Absaroka County, everybody's got a shotgun in the back of their car!
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To be slandered the way I get slandered is really uncalled for, but life goes on.
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We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.
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I rolled up my sleeves and said, 'I want to make a mark on this world.'
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I redefined how I ate and exercised and have continued to keep that up because it feels great.
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A guitar riff played on a piano doesn't come close to the purity of it being played on a guitar but I faked it enough to get by.
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I consider science fiction and fantasy my genre. And I've noticed over the years that there doesn't tend to be a lot of lighthearted, comedic stuff.
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I love the outdoors. I love climbing mountains.
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I don't believe that human beings are necessarily monogamous.
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It's really important to me not to be a snob about age division or about genre or whatever. The story needs to be what the story needs to be.
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What's going on in the inside shows on the outside.
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In my job I meet many outstanding, world class, British based companies. But we need more companies and more jobs in the companies we have.
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Well, we've faced very difficult decisions and challenges in our country, every one of us have, as we - since September 11th, as we fought the war on terror, all of those decisions that the President had to make to put young men and women in harm's way.
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I discovered that the study of past philosophers is of little use unless our own reality enters into it. Our reality alone allows the thinker's questions to become comprehensible.
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As a teenager, you're still discovering who you are, what your life is about, and who you want to be as a person. It's very intense.
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Mine honour is my life; both grow in one; Take honour from me, and my life is done.
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When I was 13, I started working in a nightclub with Ray Charles. That's the greatest school in the world, the school of the streets. Ray taught me how to read in Braille. He was only two years older than me, but it was like he was 100 years older.
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Jimi Hendrix, he was a rock star. But he played guitar; I don't. I've just found ways to use words to make my mark in this history book.
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But clearly the fact that we've gone from zero Iraqi security forces on duty in May to up to 200,000 today is an enormous accomplishment, but it's not enough.
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In 2004, I went onstage for the first time. They put a mike in my hand and pushed me out the door into the crowd. I did the three songs I had recorded and got out. It was the worst day of my life.
