M.I.A. Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I entered Harvard Medical School knowing nothing of research.
-
During one or two summers, as well as part-time during the school year, I worked for a small Canadian company which developed electrical instruments for military planes.
-
I burp, I fart. I'm a real woman.
-
We ought to have more women in various management positions, because women are the ones who decide almost everything in the home.
-
I am very happy my Olympic dream has come true.
-
Instead of yelling and spanking, which don't work anyway, I believe in finding creative ways to keep their attention - turning things into a game, for instance. And, when they do something good, positive reinforcement and praise.
-
There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.
-
To me, eyewear goes way beyond being a prescription. It's like makeup. It's the most incredible accessory. The shape of a frame or the color of lenses can change your whole appearance.
-
I've been described as a smart actor because I've attended college. Or I've been called an artsy jock. And I am thinking, 'So, are actors supposed to be dumb?'
-
A few months after NASA was formed, I was asked if I knew anyone who would like to set up a program in space astronomy.
-
My celeb crush is Julia Louis-Dreyfus. She's hysterical, she's beautiful, and she seems like a normal person. I'm in love with her.
-
Second place is just the first place loser.
-
There's nowhere like Detroit; it's a modern necropolis: all these art deco masterpieces crumbling away.
-
How long it takes to write a book depends on its length.
-
If it's a good song, it's a good song. I'll take it.
-
I was considered an ugly duckling.
-
I think of myself as a producer who tries to bring the best out of everyone, whether that be an artist, songwriter or a publicist.
-
I'd been ready too, because before Olympic Games, I wasn't compete in big competition like, World Championship, like European Championship. I just competed in national competition.
-
I do not lift my voice against the great and glorious Government guaranteed to every citizen by the Constitution, but against those corrupt administrators who trample the Constitution and just laws under their feet.
-
I'm instinctively a Conservative.
-
I knew everything in the forest. I had a secret home tree, where I pretty much lived. I also liked rooftops and streetlamps. My parents would get calls saying 'He's out there again.'
-
When I crashed my BMW and managed to walk away pretty much unscathed, it was a turning point. I'd been living the life, and when people see photos of the car wreck, they can't believe I got away with it. It was like a fog had lifted. I stopped drinking a bottle of Tequila before grabbing my car keys. It was time to wise-up and get a haircut.
-
I long for the day where we don't have to talk about our age as actresses.
-
Manhattan seems pretty developed, you know what I mean? Like, it has peaked in culture.