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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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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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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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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What I would say to the young men and women who are beset by hopelessness and doubt is that they should go and see what is being done on the ground to fight poverty, not like going to the zoo but to take action, to open their hearts and their consciences.
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The interesting thing about movies, it's not always - y'know, you have to have structure etc and all those things, but an audience responds, in many ways, we walk away and certain things stay in our heads that are memorable.
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Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have.
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Community action is as valuable a principle on the international level as it has been domestically.
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The world has become so complex that the idea of a power in which everything comes together and can be controlled in a centralized way is now erroneous.
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To me, music is no joke and it's not for sale.
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You can't judge a character that you're playing, because then you're fighting against doing what the character's doing.
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You don't need to watch everyone if everyone believes they're being watched.
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I would ask my mother to show me how to walk - and she did show me. That's why I think it's funny when people say, 'Did so-and-so teach you how to walk?' And I always say, 'You must be talking about my mother, because it was my mother who taught me how to walk.'
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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.
