M.I.A. Quotes
I hate the idea of street art. With music, I just needed my brain and my voice, which didn't cost anything.
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I joined a radical group at the age of 16 because I'm a passionate man; the good news is that I turned myself around since then. But my character is still quite free and passionate.
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I listen to Helmet - and I love Helmet, they're a great band - but every song sounds the same.
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Afrikaans culture is very right-wing and conservative, very proper, and you get this hidden underbelly, the zef side of Afrikaans which no one knows about.
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Nobody can be exactly like me. Even I have trouble doing it.
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We need to bring sustainable energy to every corner of the globe with technologies like solar energy mini-grids, solar powered lights, and wind turbines.
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I wrote my first book when I was 15 years old. And my second book '1,2,3 Publish Me!' shows everyone how writing a book is done in just the three secret editing levels I discovered!
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I just respect Kanye as an artist.
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With Twitter, you can build your own virtual trading floor and research department, populated by the smartest people on earth. Almost any subject or sector has you can think of, you can find a few people with an expertise in that area.
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It has an air about it of having strolled in from the street with a few tricks up its sleeve, and if everybody would relax, please, it would do its best to pass the time whimsically.
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I didn't know I was compared to Elizabeth Montgomery, but I think that I'm in very good company with her.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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All I remember is the last time I played a videogame, it was Space Invaders.
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I think generally, in life, I try to always ensure that there are periodic moments where I do venture out of my comfort zone, because that's what keeps you alive. That's what keeps you from getting stale.
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I see myself as a composer who plays music and likes to play with other people, and not just as a solo artist.
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I am unable to give my best if I don't have my best to give.
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The most frequently asked question I hear first-time entrepreneurs ask is, 'How do I know when to launch my product?' The answer, more often than not, should be: 'Now!'
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I was the first one to allow a projectile to come off of the stage and into the audience. And I kind of take responsibility for the mosh pit.
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I do not have any pets. We travel too much.
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So far as living instruments of labour are concerned, for instance horses, their reproduction is timed by nature itself. Their average lifetime as instruments of labour is determined by the laws of nature. As soon as this term has expired they must be replaced by new ones. A horse cannot be replaced piecemeal; it must be replaced by another horse.
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I believe people have to follow their dreams - I did.
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Music moves me - duh - and that is like having a window opening on a heightened reality, but the effect is fleeting: When the music ends, the magic, the uplifting, vanishes and the window slams shut. Words, on the other hand, by the nature of how they work, emotions evoked by dint of carefully laid out thoughts, have a more lingering effect.
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I had a very strong interest in music, specifically the piano from a very small age.
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Music is everything. God himself is nothing more than an acoustic hallucination.
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I hate the idea of street art. With music, I just needed my brain and my voice, which didn't cost anything.
