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M.I.A. Quotes

I feel like people either love me or hate me, which is good, because that was the point of what I do. The point of M.I.A. is to be - it's either to be loved or hated. At least you evoke that much of a strong opinion about music.

M.I.A.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Love Good Music Hate People Me

My daughter, the one who lives nearby, is raising her children to be very much aware. We went on a nature walk on Monday; I'm learning so much from her.

Joanne Woodward

Nature Learning Daughter Children

While a large segment of the art world has obsessed over a tiny number of stars and their prices, an aesthetic shift has been occurring. It's not a movement - movements are more sure of themselves. It's a change of mood or expectation, a desire for art to be more than showy effects, big numbers, and gamesmanship.

Jerry Saltz

Change Stars Art World Aesthetic

Rock guitarists usually do not wish to think trains of thought about anything but their own guitar playing during a long solo, and I could not play this way if I were not able to divide my attention between my ever changing musical environment and my instrument itself.

John Frusciante

Think Thought Guitar Wish Attention

I used to make up stuff in my bio all the time, that I used to be a professional ice-skater and stuff like that. I found it so inspirational. Why not make myself cooler than I am?

Stephen Colbert

Inspirational Time Myself I Am Cool

One of the biggest problems of 'In Search of Excellence' is that it focused on giant, publicly-traded companies. There are thousands upon thousands of excellent companies. Some of them are two-person accountancies in a community of three thousand people.

Tom Peters

Community Excellence People Problems

Humor comes from self-confidence.

Rita Mae Brown

Humor Self-Confidence

I never stopped dreaming of how to create a wearable to communicate with our thoughts, how to do this at consumer electronics pricing.

Mary Lou Jepsen

Thoughts Create Never Dreaming Our

Don't worry about writing a book or getting famous or making money. Just lead an interesting life.

Michael Morpurgo

Life Money Writing Book Making Money

I met Sable when she was 15 and I was 18. I sent her home to New York while we carried on the tour. When we got back the police were looking for her at the airport and everywhere!

Johnny Thunders

Home Police New York Looking Back

You have to get it in your brain that you don't belong to yourself as an actor, but that you belong to the director who creates the character.

Anne Parillaud

Character Yourself Brain You Actor

I wouldn't say we were middle class. There was not lots of money for nice things. But we never wanted for the things we needed.

Philippe Coutinho

Money Nice Say Class Never Middle

Although I was raised in Canada and the U.K., my roots are in Egypt through my father, in a family line that stretches back generations and runs along the Nile, from the concrete of Cairo to the coast of Alexandria.

Shereen El Feki

Family Father Roots Back Canada