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M.I.A. Quotes

My dad grew up in a mud hut and studied by candlelight. He was 14 when he got a scholarship to Russia. He was super clever - the cleverest person. He landed in 5ft of snow, and was alone at 14, studying science and engineering. He didn't have a bed, and he slept on a table.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: british
Birth: July 18, 1975

Topics

Snow Alone Science Engineering Table

Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future.

Future Power Time Fly Stand Retreat

Well, Howard Stern has been doing his impression of me for years. It doesn't really bother me.

Me Doing Years Impression Well Been

I don't want kids listening to my music thinking it's for their parents. I want them to feel it's theirs.

Mayer Hawthorne

Music Parents Listening Thinking

If there's friends around, I'll cook. Or if I have a girlfriend. But on my own I kind of fell out of the habit of it, and it's a shame really because I know it's good for me. It's something quite therapeutic.

Michael Fassbender

Good Habit Me Friends Know Kind

They claim this mother of ours, the Earth, for their own use, and fence their neighbors away from her, and deface her with their buildings and their refuse.

Mother Environmental Fence Buildings

The beauty of acting is you just get lost in it. You play the character, and you hope that it works.

Beauty Character Hope You Acting

My mother would work 14 hours, and she'd come home, and she'd just get right into cooking... she wanted to make sure my brother, my sister and I had food in our bellies.

Work Mother Home Food Cooking She

In order to have greater visibility of the larger cyber threat landscape, we must remove the government bureaucratic stovepipes that inhibit our abilities to effectively defend America while ensuring citizens' privacy and civil liberties are also protected.

Government America Landscape Privacy

Imagining what the possibilities are versus what is right in front of me has been the second biggest factor in defining my career.

Me Possibilities Career Right Been

You can't spend your life apologizing.

Life You Your Apologizing Spend

Television, radio, social media. The 24/7 news cycle plows forward mercilessly on our desks, in our cars and in our pockets. Thousands and thousands of messages and voices bombard us from the moment we wake, fighting for our attention. All we see and hear, all day long, is news. And most of it is bad.

Moment Day Social Media Forward Bad

For whatever reason, from a young age I've always been able to shoot images and cut them together with sound in a way that was very engaging.

Colin Trevorrow

Age Together Young Way Sound Reason

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