M.I.A. Quotes
The music industry was invented, like, 100 years ago. I'm talking about the goddess Matangi, who invented music 5,000 years ago. She was the only thing that inspired me.
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The next phase of the journey is to move from speculation to actual use cases - people getting into Bitcoin because they want to use it.
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I'm not going to roll back anything. Nothing is going to change with respect to reproductive rights.
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The world is too violent right now.
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I seldom read anything that is not of a factual nature because I want to invest my time wisely in the things that will improve my life. Don't misunderstand; there is nothing wrong with reading purely for the joy of it. Novels have their place, but biographies of famous men and women contain information that can change lives.
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Greetings and death to our enemies.
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One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
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When we talk about the minimum wage, we have to ask ourselves what it is that we owe both our workers and employers. I think clearly we owe them fairness.
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If you want to put out a million CDs and sell them and get them played on the radio, and even videos, or whatever, if that still exists, that kind of muscle can only come from a label like Columbia.
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I suppose I am one of those lucky people who eats what they like and doesn't gain too much weight.
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The secret to everything for me is doing yoga every day. It does do nice things for your body, but it also kind of calms you down and chills you out. Other than that, I don't really drink alcohol and I always take my makeup off at night!
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I still pray a lot. I still believe in God. I just don't believe in any set religion.
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Writing is like a rollercoaster ride for me, an adventure. I love exploring the world through 'playing' people who are absolutely nothing like me.
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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It's easy not to bribe. But it's not so easy to keep a business running at the same time.
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The first thing to improve society is not banning abortion, but making sure that everyone who had a child is in the best position to be able to rear it.
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It's essential for a fighter to go separately and just focus on training away from everybody else.
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I'm not really into weight training.
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To me there is no picture so beautiful as smiling, bright-eyed, happy children; no music so sweet as their clear and ringing laughter.
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The heart of Univision – and what we do – is here in Miami.
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In retrospect I can see that my desire to create abstractions has become more and more radical. Art should not be delivering a report on reality, but should be looking at what's behind something.
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When I was in the 12th grade, I got my girlfriend pregnant. I just got out of school, she was a 10th-grader. I'm a teen parent, and I'm at a point where I'm like, 'Man I've got to do something.'
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There's no religion but sex and music.
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My earliest memories of defying my parents were through music. I remember rap being banned in my house, and then getting a Cam'ron album.
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The music industry was invented, like, 100 years ago. I'm talking about the goddess Matangi, who invented music 5,000 years ago. She was the only thing that inspired me.
