M.I.A. Quotes
My experience has to be funnelled through a black experience or a white experience, or it doesn't exist, because that's how we're going to deal with the world.
Quotes to Explore
-
Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.
-
It is exciting to write about the present once one gets beyond the trivia of the moment. As a time to live in, as a time to think about, the present is intriguing.
-
I always feel the danger because you might always be subject to an unexpected or emergency event.
-
A lifetime of low calories has come naturally to the longest-lived people in the world... in the Japanese archipelago of Okinawa.
-
I've never got into debt and I've always been in control of my taxes and VAT, but having four children costs a lot. They are my weakness.
-
I was riding my mountain bike in Colorado, and I met a dog who reminded me so much of my very first dog, in the way she interacted with me, looked at me, and wagged her tail, that I rode away convinced I'd just very possibly met the reincarnated version of my long lost friend.
-
I didn't write the book to sell the book, but to tell my experiences.
-
I created something that became a phenomenon without becoming a prisoner to it.
-
I had one girl tell me last night that I'm the greatest thing ever, that she wants to aspire to be me. Just stuff like, 'You're my idol. I love you.' It's awesome. It's what it's all about.
-
There's, what, 300 films at the Telluride or Toronto or something. How many are those people gonna see? How many of those are actually gonna be in a theater, you know? You know, as an actor, I mean, I learned a long time ago that the fulfillment in this business is the doing of it because you can't rely on anything coming out.
-
A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
-
The Sherpas play a very important role in most mountaineering expeditions, and in fact many of them lead along the ridges and up to the summit.
-
By no means do I want to try to leave country music. That's absolutely where I want to stay.
-
The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.
-
Self esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.
-
I hate to repeat lines, to say the same damned thing. I try to rewrite cliches and make what I say sound fresh.
-
I think it's a mistake to go after someone just based on looks. But I always respond to people who don't act that interested in me.
-
I do a medley of hymns in all of my sets, whether I'm in an arena, in a theater, in an amusement park.
-
Leaving New York and friends is tough, and there are things about it I still really miss. But Montana is a great place to write.
-
A black person grows up in this country - and in many places - knowing that racism will be as familiar as salt to the tongue. Also, it can be as dangerous as too much salt. I think that you must struggle for betterment for yourself and for everyone.
-
You can't train kids in a world where adults have no concept of what science literacy is. The adults are gonna squash the creativity that would manifest itself, because they're clueless about what it and why it matters. But science can always benefit from the more brains there are that are thinking about it - but that's true for any field.
-
The world is so caught up in the 'American Idol' idealistic sort of tendency in regards to just thinking that this whole thing is what everybody wants, but it doesn't help you make a better record.
-
Humor is a social lubricant that helps us get over some of the bad spots.
-
My experience has to be funnelled through a black experience or a white experience, or it doesn't exist, because that's how we're going to deal with the world.
