M.I.A. Quotes
You have, in America, you have gang signs. Well, 5,000 years ago, there was thing called a mudra, which is your sitting position when you do yoga or you're meditating or you're praying or whatever. And there's not a lot of them that are named after gods and goddesses, but the middle-finger is specifically named the Matangi mudra.
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I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.
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All over the world, people are looking at India and saying 'wow', and that's because we have begun to say 'wow' ourselves.
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I am only a dog lover, and I have a nice fawn-colored one at home.
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I could sum up the future in one word, and that word is 'boring.' The future is going to be boring.
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The World Bank can only survive if it's spending money.
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Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
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The thing that I took away as an early fan from Bob Dylan was the storytelling aspects. He can tell some wicked stories.
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I worry about people who sell out to chase fame because when they get it, it might not be so satisfying.
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The reason I like Portland is the idea of going to a supermarket and knowing there's no way to be recognized. L.A. is so social.
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When I write and develop things myself, I might work for a while on a script from a book, and then I go back and read the book and go back into it to see if I lost something: is there something there?
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The idea of being at home and picking up kids from school and cooking dinner and then the husband comes home - there's something that seems really nice to me 'cause I never had that growing up. And it seems so enticing. But in my mind, I'm like, 'Well, I'll just play that in a movie and go about my own life, bizarre as it is.'
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Corruption is not the sole test of your worthiness to form the government.
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If you look at any other group of people suffering injustice, women are always in the worst situation within that group.
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And, of course, in the Philippines there were so many thousands of Americans that were captured by the Japanese and held and who were rescued by Filipino Americans, or Filipinos I should say, and by U.S. troops near the close of the war.
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Dad was an amazing storyteller and illustrator, which he did in his spare time - very inspiring and dramatic.
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I got involved with an acting school and studied for a couple years. They used to have improv exercises that you would work on and you would do improvs.
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When I saw 'Pretty In Pink' at the cinema at the age of 11, I just thought it was a period piece from maybe 100 years previously. I had no idea that was what everybody was supposed to be wearing.
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I never forget my old days and I never fly too high I have my feet fixed firmly on the ground!
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It came to a point where there was that curiosity factor: Was he going to hit 80? I'm sure it went through his head.
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Let us all pledge to protect this opportunity in order to see that the wish of peace becomes a true and daily fact in this region.
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Every actor looks all his life for a part that will combine his talents with his personality... 'The Odd Couple' was mine. That was the plutonium I needed. It all started happening after that.
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I couldn't speak well. I went to speech therapy for 10 years. And I was sort of frustrated in that sense.
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I spent 19 years as a Washington reporter covering a variety of beats.
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You have, in America, you have gang signs. Well, 5,000 years ago, there was thing called a mudra, which is your sitting position when you do yoga or you're meditating or you're praying or whatever. And there's not a lot of them that are named after gods and goddesses, but the middle-finger is specifically named the Matangi mudra.
