M.I.A. Quotes
What's wrong with hip-hop [is that] it became so one-dimensional; it became like a businessman thing. It's run out of creativity. It went so far off about making money that now everyone can do it.
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Actually William wasn't there for quite a bit of the time initially, he wasn't there for Freshers Week, so it did take a bit of time for us to get to know each other but we did become very close friends from quite early.
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I've never had a study in my life. I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.
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It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference.
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Americans are really obsessed with their teeth being white and straight, aren't they? I saw this little girl the other day with one of those whole head braces. Elastic all the way around! How traumatizing for a child to have to wear one of those! You look like a monster.
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I think punditry serves no purpose.
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Clearly I am a very strong, top-of-the-line, always-rising-to-it personage.
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I look for my opportunities, not trying to go outside of my genuine realm, because leadership has to be genuine and authentic.
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When I was being brought up, we weren't allowed to wallow in self-pity, which was a thoroughly good thing. We were all fine and healthy because that was what we were told to be.
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I do watch a lot of YouTube.
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I end up pleading my case to alternative programmers - you're telling me that my music is too dark for pop, too pop for alternative, and urban radio won't touch it - so we have a record that doesn't fit in. And what is more alternative than that?
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I am proud to have played a small part in ensuring that no veteran's heroic service will be cast aside due to prejudice.
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In our tabulation of psychoanalytic results, we have classed those who stopped treatment together with those not improved. This appears to be reasonable; a patient who fails to finish his treatment, and is not improved, is surely a therapeutic failure.
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It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.
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Cyndi Lauper is really good at talking to you about normal things. It's strange to be in the presence of a big celebrity like that. You want to make these connections and say things related to being a fan. It's not as interesting for them. She's amazing at making small talk without it seeming small.
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High school dropouts are forfeiting their opportunity to pursue the American Dream.
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I do want to finish my education. I just don't think that Boston has a big enough market for what I want to do.
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VR is going to become something mainstream, but it's not going to happen right away. You just don't have the horsepower to make it happen on a device, much less a cheap enough and comfortable enough device that a normal consumer is going to want to have.
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I find short, fast romances romantic. There's a beauty to dark imagery.
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I limited myself to introduce a change in my way of thinking and the way I see things. When I look at my child, I do it in a different way then when I'm contemplating a chair. They are different... the child is a living being, and the chair is an object.
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You don't have to bathe every day to look clean. It's just an illusion.
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When a big company lays you off, they often give you a year's salary to 'go pursue a dream.' If you're stupid, you panic and get another job. If you're smart, you take the money and use the time to figure out what you want to do next.
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I think if people give you their time and they haven't got any money then they deserve to get something. Not so that you bribe them to say things that they wouldn't otherwise say.
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Sometimes one appears to have more freedom than one actually possesses. It is easy to see what one wishes to see.
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What's wrong with hip-hop [is that] it became so one-dimensional; it became like a businessman thing. It's run out of creativity. It went so far off about making money that now everyone can do it.
