Fat Joe Quotes
When it's all said and done, I want to look back on my career and say I did numerous things.
Quotes to Explore
-
As with the onset of sudden celebrity, for the newly rich, the world often becomes a darker, narrower, less generous place; a paradox that elicits scant sympathy, but is nonetheless true.
-
Five guys on the court working together can achieve more than five talented individuals who come and go as individuals.
-
No one wants to hear the truth if it isn't what they want to hear.
-
I belong to a specific category of writers, those who speak and write in a language different from that of their parents.
-
When companies get big, they slow down. They're not as exciting. If you want to get something done, it takes a lot of time and a lot of meetings.
-
I would not, under any circumstances, try to impose my personal faith and belief on the rest of the country. I don't think that's right. I don't think that's appropriate. But freedom of religion doesn't mean freedom from religion. And I think that anything we can do to promote the idea that people should express their faith is a good thing.
-
I was brought up the Mexican way, where actors are paid very little and every part you take is an act of faith. If people respect that, then great.
-
Everything has two sides - the outside that is ridiculous, and the inside that is solemn.
-
I learn from Larry Ellison every day. I've said this before: how is it to work with someone who thinks out of the box? Larry doesn't see the walls at all; he does not see the box. He is an absolute, true visionary. And to be honest, I always find myself in a box! I'm comfy in my box. I've furnished it; it's lovely.
-
Oh, I am an angel, though sometimes I wish I was more of a devil.
-
We've got to step up our conservation efforts before it's too late. We're not protecting our lands and natural resources. Take the Grand Canyon for example; I'm sure that at one time it was a beautiful piece of land, and just look at the way we've let it go.
-
I was always taken in and out of school.
-
For me, I never, never, from the moment I started acting, had a desire to be famous.
-
All the reasons that have made software so successful are beginning to happen with hardware. So much can be done so quickly, prototyped so rapidly, and the costs are so low.
-
There is not one New York but thousands - mixed-up conurbations and microclimates with their own internal logics and charms, dreams and juxtapositions, faces and tongues.
-
Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.
-
You are not alone with a guy until you are a proper age. You don't go to certain levels with men until you are married or you have a certain relationship.
-
Generally my songs are just some riffs slung together as an excuse for a guitar solo.
-
I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like the state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.
-
When you don't know how to cook, you just say, 'I need something quick,' and then you fry something up. Now that I cook, I think, 'Do I want to have fried fish, baked fish, or grilled fish?'
-
The more various our artificial necessities, the wider is our circle of pleasure; for all pleasure consists in obviating necessities as they rise; luxury, therefore, as it increases our wants, increases our capacity for happiness
-
Take from others what you want, but never be a disciple of anyone.
-
When it's all said and done, I want to look back on my career and say I did numerous things.
