"If someone's carrying a gun or a knife it's not a nice thing. They aren't going to feel that comfortable with it. It's a scary position to put yourself in. You don't choose to do that unless you feel there's absolutely no other option and you're forced to carry a weapon in order to protect yourself."

-- Scarlett Alice Johnson

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“Always expect the unexpected. The oil and gas industry is terrible at predicting anything. Always have a back-up plan.”
“Do not pursue what is illusory - property and position: all that is gained at the expense of your nerves decade after decade and can be confiscated in one fell night. Live with a steady superiority over life - don't be afraid of misfortune, and do not yearn after happiness; it is after all, all the same: the bitter doesn't last forever, and the sweet never fills the cup to overflowing.”
“Maybe the problem is that I was never taught to enjoy failure as an opportunity.”
“It is time the Arabs and the Jews sat down and settled this dispute in the true Christian spirit.”
“It's always hard - if you're not the best player on your team, how can you be the best player in college?”
“How strange that the nature of life is change, yet the nature of human beings is to resist change. And how ironic that the difficult times we fear might ruin us are the very ones that can break us open and help us blossom into who we were meant to be.”
“I'm definitely not an outsider artist. I'm very much an insider artist. I get written about in art magazines, and I'm not, like, in a mental institution. I'm a regular guy who went to art school.”
“I feel sometimes constrained by the expectation that the work should be solely political. I try to create a type of work that is at the service of my own set of criteria, which have to do with beauty and a type of utopia that in some ways speaks to the culture I'm located in.”

Source : Interview with M.I.A., www.interviewmagazine.com. November 19, 2008.

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