M.I.A. Quotes
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Accomplish something every day of your life.
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If it's hard for Blue America to see Red America as anything other than a bunch of dumb, racist rednecks; it's hard for Red America to recognize that many minorities are legitimately worried about what a Trump presidency means for their family.
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A woman going out with a younger man feels like the last taboo.
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Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.
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I as a Muslim want you, as a Christian, to really be a perfect Christian. I want my Jewish friends to be perfect Jews, to live according to the highest principles of what it means to be a Jew, to be a Christian, to be a Muslim.
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Singing for me has always been a joyous but private pleasure that connects me in a lyric thread to my beloved grandmother Alice.
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For me, I never, never, from the moment I started acting, had a desire to be famous.
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I don't believe in writer's block.
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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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Fighting, I guess, was never the real reason I read comic books as a kid. The fighting was an important part, an integral part of it; I don't know I would've read it without it.
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I have nothing against priests. In fact, I tried for a time to be one... It should be clear, then, that I respect, and am often fond of, the many priests in my life.
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I really am an open book. I don't keep anything in at all, which is good and bad.
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'Runaround Sue' was a big record for me, as well as the music video for it.
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'Bruce Lee' didn't work, and there were apprehensions about what the fans might say. People might have commented that Charan could have waited for some time before selecting me again. But that's what makes it a real achievement to me. People want to work with me because of the comfort level; nobody would work with you again otherwise.
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Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.
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This country has far more problems than it deserves and far more solutions than it applies.
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In the theater, it's a visceral and physical response because you move around so much. You have to do something physical to pull you in. On TV or in movies, everything is so small. You can just lock into a character and ease yourself into that way.
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We shouldn't judge people through the prism of our own stereotypes.
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The more aspects of life that can be moved from private reign to public realm, the better it is for politics.
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So, the kind of precious memories about being black for my generation won't exist for my kids' and grandkids' generations unless we preserve them through fiction, through film, through comic books, and every other form of media we can possibly utilize to perpetuate the story of the great African-American people.
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I was going to finish my university degree after finishing 'The Tailors,' but 'Pinocchio' made me to take another semester off.
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I was born in Lebanon and emigrated to the U.S. and went back. I'd been raised in a French school in Beirut. Lebanon is a peculiar place, so bicultural it goes along with you. There is a Western influence, an Eastern influence. Most people are fluctuating between those identities.
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Today we stand on a bridge leading from the territorial state to the world community. Politically, we are still governed by the concept of the territorial state; economically and technically, we live under the auspices of worldwide communications and worldwide markets.
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I am the bridge between the East and the West. I don't want to abandon one for the other.
