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.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • People
  • Life
  • Political

• 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.

  

  Ja Rule
  • Up
  • Love
  • Acting

• I've never experienced chronic pain myself, but I have known many people over the years who have.

  

  Naomi Judd
  • People
  • Pain
  • Myself

• Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Happy
  • Man
  • Happiness

• 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.

  

  Salman Khan
  • Good
  • Simple
  • Fashion

• 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.

  

  Lafcadio Hearn
  • Great
  • Today
  • Knowledge

• 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.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Life
  • Details
  • Negotiation

• A quarterback is always going to be the most valuable player on a football field because he touches the ball every single offensive play.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Single
  • Play
  • Football

• 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.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • World
  • Energy
  • Loss

• 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.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Work
  • Great
  • Literature

• 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.

  

  Damon Albarn Blur
  • People
  • Work
  • Real

• 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.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Live
  • Together
  • Peace

• From that time on, I always had the studios on my neck.

  

  Karen Morley
  • Time
  • Always
  • Neck

• 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.

  

  Warren Cuccurullo Duran Duran
  • Work
  • House
  • Never

• Comics seldom move me the way I would be moved by a novel or movie.

  

  Daniel Clowes
  • Movie
  • Way
  • Me

• 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.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Heart
  • Art
  • Listening

• I mean, Tool has a style, but we try to make all our songs sound different from each other.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Different
  • Style
  • Sound

• Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Genius
  • Infinite
  • Out

• I guess some kids around me had to grow up quickly, had all those problems. But I wasn't one of those kids, or around those kids, not at all.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Problems

• There's no need to travel further. The Los Angeles area is big enough for us.

  

  Marvin Davis
  • Travel

• We act in a pragmatic and careful manner. We reduce spending on budget items that do not constitute a priority.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Priorities
  • Careful
  • Pragmatic

• The whole point of art, as far as I’m concerned, is that art doesn’t make any difference. And that’s why it’s important. Take film: you can have quite extreme emotional experiences watching a movie, but they stop as soon as you walk out of the cinema. You can see people being hurt, but even though you feel those things strongly, you know they’re not real.

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
  • Art
  • Movie
  • Difference

• Any piece of art, when you're putting it on a certain platform, if the platform becomes a political place, you can manipulate things.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Art
  • Political