M.I.A. Quotes
Any piece of art, when you're putting it on a certain platform, if the platform becomes a political place, you can manipulate things.
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I don't get controversial, I don't get political and I don't tell you what to do with your life. I just go out there and tell some stories, and people can relate.
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Acting was something I always wanted to try. I just didn't know how, or I didn't know when the door was gonna be open for me to try it. But it finally opened up for me when I did 'Turn It Up', and ever since then I've been in love with doing films.
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I've never experienced chronic pain myself, but I have known many people over the years who have.
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Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
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All fashion brands are about looking good. Being Human is also about doing good. And you can do good by the simple act of slipping into a t-shirt or a pair of jeans.
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A great many things which in times of lesser knowledge we imagined to be superstitious or useless, prove today on examination to have been of immense value to mankind.
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In captivity, one loses every way of acting over little details which satisfy the essentials of life. Everything has to be asked for: permission to go to the toilet, permission to ask a guard something, permission to talk to another hostage - to brush your teeth, use toilet paper, everything is a negotiation.
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As many of you know I travel a good bit and do not get to see my friends and family as much as I would like.
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A quarterback is always going to be the most valuable player on a football field because he touches the ball every single offensive play.
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Our world is evolving without consideration, and the result is a loss of biodiversity, energy issues, congestion in cities. But geography, if used correctly, can be used to redesign sustainable and more livable cities.
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I'm a reader of Chinese literature, I like their films, but also: I've had great difficulty getting my work published in China; very little of it has been published there. The first two attempts to have all of my work published, for instance, were refused without any reason ever being given.
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The Gorillaz cartoons seem more real to me than the actual people on TV. Because at least you know that there's some intelligence behind the cartoons, and there's a lot of work that's gone into it, so it can't all be just a lie.
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Mr. President, prime ministers, let us have ambitions: ambitions to move beyond the violence and occupation, to the day when two states, Palestine and Israel, can live together side by side in peace and security.
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From that time on, I always had the studios on my neck.
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I would never go to a gym. How could I do it? So I tried to do it in my house and it doesn't work.
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Comics seldom move me the way I would be moved by a novel or movie.
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You have to master not only the art of listening to your head, you must also master listening to your heart and listening to your gut.
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I mean, Tool has a style, but we try to make all our songs sound different from each other.
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The door might not be opened to a woman again for a long, long time, and I had a kind of duty to other women to walk in and sit down on the chair that was offered, and so establish the right of others long hence and far distant in geography to sit in the high seats.
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I have never been particularly picky when it comes to what I'm putting in my hair. Most of it is just the genes I'm so fortunate to have inherited from my parents.
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Writing is done alone. People do not talk about the things they do alone.
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The primary purpose of the Museum is to help people enjoy, understand, and use the visual arts of our time.
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Any piece of art, when you're putting it on a certain platform, if the platform becomes a political place, you can manipulate things.
