"My uncle was the first brown person to……" — M.I.A.
"My uncle was the first brown person to have a market stall on Petticoat Lane in the 1960s. He worked his way up from the street. He was homeless, but eventually he got a car so he could sell from the boot. And by the 1980s, he was a millionaire wholesaling to companies like Topshop. So in a way, fashion put me in England."
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20 Quotes by M.I.A.
M.I.A. has 20 quotes on this site.
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Retirement: a brand new beginning! How wonderful!
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I just think that funerals are a lot like death itself. You can have your wishes, your plans, but at…
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Uncomfortable silences. Why do we feel it's necessary to yak about bullshit in order to be comfortable?
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Besides, isn't it more exciting when you don't have permission?
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Here we are at the edge of the world, the very edge of Western civilization, and all of us are…
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I am the bridge between the East and the West. I don't want to abandon one for the other.
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I already feel that I am making a political statement by sticking around in music, when I am doing it…
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My giving birth was nothing when I think about all the people in Sri Lanka that have to give birth…
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Basically, when I went to school in Sri Lanka from age five onward, the classes there were sometimes sorted into…
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You have to constantly redefine who you are.
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I was part of the generation that pushed the Internet. In fact, I broke as an artist in the U.S.A.…
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Manhattan seems pretty developed, you know what I mean? Like, it has peaked in culture.
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More Boot Quotes
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Does it follow that I reject all authority? Perish the thought. In the matter of boots, I defer to the…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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Admittedly, a homosexual can be conditioned to react sexually to a woman, or to an old boot for that matter.…
— William S. Burroughs
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The single largest variable that predicts SAT scores is family income. If you want higher SAT scores, you need to…
— Unknown Author
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There was always talk of espirit de corps, of being gung ho, and that must have been a part of…
— James Brady
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No one did what I did last season and for this I deserve the Golden Boot and why not the…
— Cristiano Ronaldo
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As far as I'm concerned there shouldn't be a single boot on the ground. There's enough American blood in Iraq…
— Harry Reid
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The premise upon which mass compulsion schooling is based is dead wrong. It tries to shoehorn every style, culture, and…
— John Taylor Gatto
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I am made for autumn. Summer and I have a fickle relationship, but everything about autumn is perfect to me.…
— Unknown Author
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I always used to put my right boot on first, and then obviously my right sock.
— Barry Venison
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On his method for lighting up: "Nothing special, but I do blunts, cigarellos, pipes, bongs, bowls, I'll smoke out of…
— Unknown Author
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Boot, saddle, to horse, and away!
— Robert Browning
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How infinitely happier and more grateful is the whole personality or spirit when it finds something nourishing in art or…
— Kenny Smith
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