M.I.A. Quotes
I'd be very controversial if I said why, and I don't do controversial anymore. That's too passé. So last year. Being controversial is boring now.
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Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have anything at all on astronomy.
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You can't predict a show, that is the damndest thing, you can't predict if a show is going to work or not until it's on the air.
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Obviously, it gave me a chance to see Barcelona. I won't deny that. But I also had a chance to see something in another country in terms of recycling and reusing nuclear material.
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Throughout American history many of our social gains and much of our progress toward democracy were made possible by the active intervention of the federal government.
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Being grown up and in a serious relationship, I've learned so much. I'm happier than I've every been.
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At no point am I ever threatened by people who question who I am, or why I like the things I do, or my legitimacy. Because I know who I am very strongly, and I think that's what geek culture can reinforce.
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Information is a negotiator's greatest weapon.
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There was a time when caddies couldn't wear shorts.
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Well, where there is freedom doubt itself must be free.
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I used to hate any batsman who would not get out in my deliveries.
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I try to basically keep my opinions to myself when it comes to people who are charged with crimes that I don't know anything about.
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In my grandfather's lab, scientists did independent research, and peers reviewed and commented on its merits. Politics, he taught me, had no place in the scientific process.
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Endurance in ministry is rooted in the eternal perspective. The absence of an eternal perspective makes you vulnerable to losing heart.
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Music has always been my passion for as long as I can remember.
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I had a flip phone until I was 25, and I didn't use social media until that age, either.
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I'm not a universalist, and the way I talk about final loss is this: People worship idols - money, whatever. Their humanness gets reshaped around the idol - you become like what you worship. That's one of the basic spiritual laws.
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My bag always weighs a ton. I carry my whole bathroom with me. You never know what's going to happen in a day!
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When I started playing in bands, we had to be apologetic for what we did. We had to be apologetic because the mainstream was so bad.
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The body is the substance of the stone.
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She is running around talking about how this is an insult to sportsmen, how she values the Second Amendment. She's talking like she's Annie Oakley.
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Rian Johnson's 'Looper' is inventive, entertaining, and thought-provoking in every way a movie can be. It is in fact the kind of movie that reminds us why we watch them and make them, a beautifully told story that deserves to be not only remembered, but acknowledged for its writing.
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Aaron Sorkin is why people hate liberals. He's a smug, condescending know-it-all who isn't as smart as he thinks he is.
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Stop pretending there's anything wrong with businesspeople hiring diligent laborers who will work for less. Let employers sponsor any worker and argue for why that worker should be given citizenship. Such a vetting mechanism would naturally promote the best and hardest-working.
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I'd be very controversial if I said why, and I don't do controversial anymore. That's too passé. So last year. Being controversial is boring now.
