M.I.A. Quotes
When I first came out, I was a film student, and my mom sewed clothes. I was already doing a million things then, whatever it took to survive. If I had to braid someone's hair to get one pound for my lunch money, that's what I did.M.I.A.
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I'm awful with directions, and I'm not very handy around the house.
Taye Diggs -
A scientist who cannot prove what he has accomplished, has accomplished nothing.
Walter Reisch -
I think that one of the primary roles of an attorney, and certainly we try to teach it here to our students, is that you counsel compliance with the law. The lawyer, more than simply being a mouthpiece for the client and advocating at whatever cost the client's interest, is also an officer of the court in questions that appear before the court.
Viet D. Dinh -
I am the least intimidating person. I think I would have done better in my career if I were a little more intimidating. Even the maid who comes to work for me once a week has found out that she can just trample over me... I'm a Cancer! We are not ferocious people.
Karen Black -
In tennis, because of the way it's scored, I don't think that scoring one point out of luck is ever decisive in winning. But, of course, it depends on the moment.
Rafael Nadal -
3D prefers you to use wider lenses because when things are out of focus, and yet it's in 3D, it bothers you.
Gavin Hood
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I'm getting married because I'm in love with a girl and want to spend my life with her. You can't live your life doing what other people want you to or you'll be miserable. At some point you just have to be yourself.
Dan Marino -
I believe God knew what he was doing when he put oil under our ground. It should be a means to an end.
Olusegun Obasanjo -
Even as a 10-year-old, I remember trying to explain to my mother and stepfather how upset and frustrated a messy room made me. But they just couldn't grasp it. They wanted me to be playing with baseballs and frogs while I wanted to be scouring garage sales.
Nate Berkus -
All too often, the pitchmen are selling the notion that if you gain 'control' over your financial destiny - pick your own stocks and execute your own trades - it will be the first step on a short road to riches.
Gary Weiss -
Anytime you get to work with an actor who is beyond you in experience and talent, I feel like they make you a better actor. You really bring up your game.
Malin Akerman -
I have worked for three decades as a staunch advocate of building a 'big tent' party that includes both pro-choice and pro-life Republicans.
Olympia Snowe
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Switzerland is a place where they don't like to fight, so they get people to do their fighting for them while they ski and eat chocolate.
Larry David -
The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.
e. e. cummings -
I don't feel as if I belong to an age group.
Quentin Blake -
If we want to recruit and retain high-quality teachers, it starts with a fair wage, adequate working conditions, and the resources and support to succeed. Remember: teachers' working conditions are students' learning conditions.
Randi Weingarten -
I can't deal with someone flashy. That's so not me.
Kate Bosworth -
You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer.
Irwin Shaw
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All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.
Alexis de Tocqueville -
God, my brain really goes to mush when I'm pregnant.
Kate Winslet -
Like everybody, my views on many issues have changed as I have gotten older.
Bob McDonnell -
To me, if you love it enough to devote your life to it, then you're doing the right thing.
Kris Kristofferson -
There's plenty of money to be had. But you also lose your soul.
Alan Alda -
When I first came out, I was a film student, and my mom sewed clothes. I was already doing a million things then, whatever it took to survive. If I had to braid someone's hair to get one pound for my lunch money, that's what I did.
M.I.A.