M.I.A. Quotes
My father had no influence on my political beliefs, and to imply otherwise is wrong and irresponsible.
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I would wait in line for anything to do with 'Doctor Who.'
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People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.
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There is always pressure in football.
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In the age of the internet when everybody's a pundit, we're still gonna need somebody there to go talk to the colonels, to be on the ground in Baghdad and stuff and that's very expensive.
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I've been to a few conventions, you know, when the tax man knocks at the door and the 'Star Wars' convention people say: 'Do you want to come and sign some autographs?'
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We all look at ourselves in the mirror and think, 'Am I good?'
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You can de-select the songs that you don't want to have on the record, but I hope we always put something out that has a lot of songs that the majority of people will love.
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The McCain-Feingold limit on how much you give a candidate didn't really work because people found ways to get around it.
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Hip-hop is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight.
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You have to enjoy it. It is not going to happen every year, so this is the year that it is happening and we have got to go out there and enjoy it.
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Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes - the whole bag of tricks.
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Boys can just wear a suit on the red carpet and that's fine, but for girls it's all about the way you look, and there are constant comparisons.
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There are lots of reasons for that gap between men's and women's wages but to me, the big one is the work-family issue. Trying to juggle children and a job is tough under any circumstances, but especially if you're shooting for the kind of career that involves long hours at work and being on call 24-7.
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If you have passion, there is no need for excuses because your enthusiasm will trump any negative reasoning you might come up with. Enthusiasm makes excuses a nonissue.
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I should confess that I'm woefully under-read in South African fiction.
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I'm a great bum, and I'm a pretty good director.
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I love gardening, and I love cooking. I love things like that. I love creating things.
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You've got to keep pushing, keep driving, because in this business, you're going to hear 'no' a lot more than you hear 'yes.'
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I've wanted to design golf courses ever since I was a kid. I suppose it comes from the way I've played the game. To find the proper way to play any hole, I've always begun by asking myself what the architect has tried to do with it.
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I set goals for myself every three months. I write them down.
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My favourite smell is horses. In fact, most of the time, I do smell like horses.
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The Jewish press in the USA is solely responsible for our poor publicity.
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I would hazard the statement that in the broad sense [Ho Chi Minh's] ideas had triumphed, since the communist victory in Vietnam was a consequence of political, diplomatic, and psychological factors more than military ones. That is a tribute to the ideas that he introduced in his life and thought.
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My father had no influence on my political beliefs, and to imply otherwise is wrong and irresponsible.
