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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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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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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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
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No one wears high heels all day, every day.
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A lot of things trigger my inspiration. It can be the most banal things.
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I've probably read more bad science fiction than anyone else alive. But I've also read more good science fiction than anyone else alive.
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The best of all kinds of movies are character-driven, and I definitely don't want to lose sight of why Derek and I started to write movies together in the first place.
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If any opinion is compelled to silence, that opinion may, for aught we can certainly know, be true. To deny this is to assume our own infallibility.
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For complicated historical and political reasons, we associate 'poor' in our public consciousness with 'black.' Terms such as 'welfare queen' and 'culture of poverty' became associated uniquely with the social maladies of African Americans in urban ghettos, despite the fact that poor whites outnumbered poor blacks.
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The worst state of affairs is when science begins to concern itself with art.
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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.
