M.I.A. Quotes

If it's just politics that's running music, f - k that. I'm out of here! I can't think of anything more boring.

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• As I followed my dream - stayed in-Spirit, that is, inspired - I made more money in the first year after I gave up my employment than I had made in the previous 35 years of my life.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Life
  • Up
  • Money

• I never had only one job. I was either playing ball or writing or doing TV or modeling.

  

  Gabrielle Reece
  • Writing
  • Job
  • Modeling

• I love the quality of TIDAL. I appreciate what they're trying to do and what they're trying to accomplish.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Trying
  • Quality
  • Appreciate

• I define power as 'control over one's life.' A balanced life is far superior to the male definition of power: earning money someone else spends while he dies sooner.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Life
  • Money
  • Power

• It's true; once you are a father, there's no turning back. Your heart strings as well as your purse strings are never again the same.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Heart
  • True
  • Father

• I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Work
  • Money
  • Think

• In a few decades, the relationship between the environment, resources and conflict may seem almost as obvious as the connection we see today between human rights, democracy and peace.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • May
  • Today
  • Peace

• I read Shakespeare when I was 14 because it's what we were taught.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Read
  • Because
  • Shakespeare

• An ordinary kitten will ask more questions than any five-year-old.

  

  Carl Van Vechten
  • Will
  • Questions
  • Ordinary

• To be honest, if it wasn't for my daughter, I don't think I would have gotten out of the situation that I was in before 'Idol' because I am a domestic violence survivor.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • Violence
  • Daughter
  • Situation

• I really am an open book. I don't keep anything in at all, which is good and bad.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Good
  • Book
  • Bad

• Adulthood is not a goal. It's not seen as a gift.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Goal
  • Gift
  • Adulthood

• There is a restaurant in L.A. called Crustacean, which is very famous for its garlic crab. Well, I can make garlic crab better than Crustacean. My sauce is so good you'll want to dip your bread in it, put it on your egg omelet, in your cereal, and in everything else.

  

  Tasha Smith
  • Good
  • Better
  • Famous

• What is extraordinary about contemporary art is the energy - it has our energy. New energy. Pieces hundreds of years old are beautiful from an aesthetic point of view, but without our modern energy.

  

  Victor Pinchuk
  • Art
  • Beautiful
  • Energy

• I was a Presbyterian minister at a small church in Omaha, Nebraska.

  

  Sam Barry
  • Small
  • Church
  • Nebraska

• Yoga carves you into a different person - and that is satisfying physically.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • Different
  • You
  • Person

• I had seen the ballet of 'Swan Lake' as a child but it was as an adult, when I saw a production featuring Erik Bruhn, that I first noticed how significant a part the ever-present threat of violence played. This juxtaposition of great beauty and grace with a backdrop of pure evil stayed with me for years.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Great
  • Evil
  • Present

• Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Secret
  • Perseverance

• Music directly imitates the passions or states of the soul...when one listens to music that imitates a certain passion, he becomes imbued withthe same passion; and if over a long time he habitually listens to music that rouses ignoble passions, his whole character will be shaped to an ignoble form.

  

  Aristotle
  • Music
  • Character
  • Soul

• Though tightly the net of words forms, how surely truth slips out.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Truth
  • Words
  • Slips Out

• So many able historians have worked over seventeenth-century New England that one would think there was little left to be learned from the people who lived there - fewer than 100,000 at the end of the century. Seldom, apart perhaps from the Greeks and Romans, have so few been studied by so many.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • People
  • Think
  • End

• I love all music. Right now I am loving Josh Grobin and Kelly Clarkson.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Music
  • Right
  • Loving

• I've always wanted my lyrics to say something meaningful and, you know, you always want to tell a message with your art. So yes, as I continue to write music, I will write about things that are real and things that I feel aren't written about a lot.

  

  Hayley Kiyoko
  • Music
  • Real
  • Art

• If it's just politics that's running music, f - k that. I'm out of here! I can't think of anything more boring.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Music
  • Thinking
  • Running