M.I.A. Quotes
Human beings around the world have to be taught to go, 'Tamil equals Tamil civilians first, and the Tamil Tiger is a separate thing.' And both of those groups are different. It's like a square and a circle.
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The student will try to defy the master. Always.
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You mustn't upstage the bride.
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We as women have a voice and we are decision makers in what film to see. We always support our boyfriends and husbands by going to see the male dominated films, but we don't compel them to see films with female casts.
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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.
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I sometimes read in a gossip column that I was at a party when I was in Europe at the time. It sometimes feels I've got a Doppelganger somewhere.
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Americans should be wary of the Muslim Brothers in Egypt but not scared of them.
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I believe that I have been basically anarchistic, anti-religion and anti-industry and business. In other words, anti-bureaucracy. I would like to see people behave well without having to have priests stand by, politicians stand by, or people collecting bills.
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I'm not the best at video games, but I play them a lot.
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I like writing idealistically, romantically and swashbucklingly.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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A lot of things and a lot of money is involved in a movie. It is very upsetting when a movie doesn't fare well at the box-office.
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The crown of literature is poetry.
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We all have our strengths and our failings.
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War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money.
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I'm not attached to things at all. I'm very lucky to have quite a few beautiful things, but if I look back at my life, I was often happiest when I had very little.
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Financial analysts make a lot more than accountants.
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If you look at a lot of the songs I've been involved in, there's always been this retro vibe. I started getting worried that I wasn't moving forward very much, nor was I even in tune with the music today. I almost scoffed at it.
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Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.
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It's not like I go out there to be a sex symbol. I mean, it's nice of course - but embarrassing.
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John Carpenter had a lot to do with putting social messages into genre movies.
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I believe that it must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures.
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Nobody is going to be as bad for free thinking, right-minded individuals than George Bush.
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I like to go after the foibles, basically of beliefs that are held without question. If people still want to believe in their stuff after that, that's great - as long as they just have a chance to step back and look at it for a second. Sometimes, you don't even realize what you've been thinking for 20 years.
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Human beings around the world have to be taught to go, 'Tamil equals Tamil civilians first, and the Tamil Tiger is a separate thing.' And both of those groups are different. It's like a square and a circle.
