M.I.A. Quotes
Everything I think seems to be controversial, so I feel like I need to just go away for a second and put it all down on paper until the storm passes.
Quotes to Explore
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My father opened a restaurant. It's so amazing... it's so freaking delicious, but I'm telling you I gain five pounds every time I go in there.
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There's something called CEQA in California - NEPA at the federal level. There's indigenous lands and autonomies relating to governance on those lands. There are all kinds of obstructions as it relates to just getting zoning approval and getting building permits.
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Whatever life may really be, it is to us an abstraction: for the word is a generalised term to signify that which is common to all animals and plants, and which is not directly operative in the inorganic world.
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If men possessed wisdom, which stands in the same relation to the form of man as the sight to the eye, they would not cause any injury to themselves or to others; for the knowledge of truth removes hatred and quarrels, and prevents mutual injuries.
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Illinois needs a single-payer health care system, and as governor, I will take the steps to get us there.
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I took on cancer like I take on everything - like a mission and a job to accomplish.
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I was frequently told at drama school that I was thinking too much. And I still have to suppress that part of me because it can sometimes be a hindrance.
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The key question to keep asking is, Are you spending your time on the right things? Because time is all you have.'
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No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin or his background or his religion. ... People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love. ... For love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.
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Fashion is a way of not having to decide who you are. Style is deciding who you are and being able to perpetuate it.
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I that have loved thee thus before thou fadest,My faith shall wax, when thou art in thy waning.The world shall find this miracle in me,That fire can burn when all the matter's spent.
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He resembled a minor prophet who had been hit behind the ear with a stuffed eel-skin.
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We disapprove of parental hovering not because it won’t pay off later-it might; it does!-but because it’s obnoxious now.
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I was sixteen when suddenlyI wasn't that little girl you used to see.But your eyes still shined like pretty lights,And our daddies used to joke about the two of us.They never believed we'd really fall in love.And our mamas smiled and rolled their eyesAnd said oh my my my...
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I feel I am privileged to express a hope. The hope is this: that we shall have peace throughout the world: that we shall abolish wars, and settle all international differences at the conference table: that we shall abolish all atom and hydrogen bombs, before they abolish us first.
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I'm never writing as a character.
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I am really Method-y.
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There will always be something to ruin our lives, it all depends on what or which finds us first. We are always ripe and ready to be taken.
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I write all the time, and I write a lot of songs, but before I started putting out records, those songs always just ended up on stuff that I did with The Babies.
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Since no daily responses are given from heaven, and the Scriptures are the only record in which God has been pleased to consign His truth to perpetual remembrance, the full authority which they ought to possess with the faithful is not recognized unless they are believed to have come from heaven as directly as if God had been heard giving utterance to them.
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Women in leadership cannot cry without raising a storm of commentary.
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The line-storm clouds fly tattered and swift, The road is forlorn all day, Where a myriad snowy quartz stones lift, And the hoof-prints vanish away. The roadside flowers, too wet for the bee, Expend their bloom in vain. Come over the hills and far with me, And be my love in the rain.
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Well, what is acting but the study of human behavior? And that's so fascinating to me.
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Everything I think seems to be controversial, so I feel like I need to just go away for a second and put it all down on paper until the storm passes.
