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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I'm always surprised when an actor goes so deeply into the truth that they shake you to your core.
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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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The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
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I'm amazed, as quirky, individual and selfish as most of us are, that anyone stays married for long.
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I am profoundly grateful that all of my life I have had a simple faith that Jesus is the Christ. That witness has been confirmed to me hundreds of times. It is the crowning knowledge of my soul. It is the spiritual light of my being. It is the cornerstone of my life.
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Meditation is simply seeing reality and acknowledging it with bare honesty.
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We need the political will, and that often comes from the will of the people. So if celebrities or personalities can help to educate the people - not influence them, not tell them (what to do) - just tell them the truth about what's happening and let them form their own opinion, that will strengthen them and they will push their politicians.
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My father had no influence on my political beliefs, and to imply otherwise is wrong and irresponsible.
