Erislandy Lara Quotes

People make excuses [for not wanting to fight me]. It has a lot to do with my style. I'm a crafty fighter but I can also punch.

Erislandy Lara

• People
• Fighting
• Excuse
• Crafty

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• A complainer is like a Death Eater because there's a suction of negative energy. You can catch a great attitude from great people.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • People
  • Great
  • Death

• I am always surprised people are surprised that people haven't read things.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Read
  • Surprised

• I really admire people who have a natural sense of style. They have a super power.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • People
  • Power
  • Style

• Today, people idolize athletes and celebrities - and yes, highly successful and visionary business people like Bill Gates or Steve Jobs, but not the innovators who perhaps have not seen such high-flying levels of success. Can anyone name the inventors of GPS, which has such a huge impact on our lives today?

  

  Naveen Jain
  • People
  • Business
  • High

• Nightclubs are the equivalent of a Catholic Church in a poor country. You hear a lot of stuff about churches filled with gold while the people are starving. But what elitists don't get is that for poor people, the church is their own mansion. Nightclubs fill the same function.

  

  Oscar Hijuelos
  • People
  • Country
  • Church

• When people know I wrote 'Thelma and Louise,' they don't want to mess with me.

  

  Callie Khouri
  • People
  • Want
  • Me

• We want people to listen to records, to a whole body of music. I want you to buy into my life, not just one subject in my life.

  

  Sam Smith
  • People
  • Life
  • Music

• I wasn't intentionally trying to be different, but that was an element of what I naturally do that happened to be unique enough to spark a curiosity for people.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • People
  • Different
  • Trying

• Genocide is an attempt to exterminate a people, not to alter their behavior.

  

  Jack Schwartz
  • People
  • Behavior
  • Genocide

• Not that I'm against sneaking some notions into people's heads upon occasion. (Or blasting them in outright.)

  

  Larry Wall
  • People

• The most essential characteristic of scientific technique is that it proceeds from experiment, not from tradition. The experimental habit of mind is a difficult one for most people to maintain; indeed, the science of one generation has already become the tradition of the next...

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • People
  • Mind
  • Science

• 'HEAVN' is about black girlhood, about Chicago, about the people we miss who have gone on to prepare a place for us somewhere else, about the city/world we aspire to live in. I hope this album encourages listeners to love themselves and love each other.

  

  Jamila Woods
  • People
  • World
  • Live

• With Marvel, I obviously don't own the characters, so there are levels of approval to go through. But I'm very seldom told no, and never without reason. Maybe I've just been lucky; I don't know, but I don't think it's as frustrating as people generally imagine. I act as though I own it all while I'm writing, I think. I hope, anyway.

  

  Kelly Sue DeConnick
  • People
  • Writing
  • Hope

• I'm very hard on myself as an artist to begin with, so I personally don't even think I have the proper chops to sell a record, but people think differently.

  

  Ashleigh Murray
  • People

• I feel like people in the industry are scared to take that chance because it's not easy to design plus-size clothing.

  

  Ashley Nell Tipton
  • People
  • Design

• 'Night' may be one of the most important books that people can read today. It is a story of how hate can slowly take over a society. It shows what happens when people are dehumanized.

  

  Clemantine Wamariya
  • People
  • Important
  • May

• I think that the friendship that women share is so powerful. In fact, there's nothing quite like it. People talk about mother-child bonds, but I would argue that female friendship bond is also in a league unto its own.

  

  Amanda de Cadenet
  • People
  • Women
  • Mother

• I wish I could read minds. It's a dangerous superpower, so I'd wish for it to come with a switch where I could turn it off if I wanted to. You'd learn a lot about people, that's for sure!

  

  Kelsey Chow
  • People
  • Wish

• I'm just trying to touch the world and touch the people and just get good material. And show them that we can get it done. Just because you're African American, you still can touch the masses. And that's my goal. I won't stop until that goal is continued to push it hard to the world that we are the universal person as well.

  

  Cory Hardrict
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• Our natural egoism leads us to judge people by their relations to ourselves. We want them to be certain things to us, and for us that is what they are; because the rest of them is no good to us, we ignore it.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • People
  • Good
  • Rest

• While growing up in Baltimore, Maryland, I dreamed of becoming many things: an archaeologist, an ambassador, an actor, an author.

  

  Karen Hesse
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Actor

• When I was out promoting 'Selma,' I became aware of so many other films that ought to be getting distribution. And this is a problem I can do something about because of my experience.

  

  Ava DuVernay
  • Experience

• True observers of nature, although they may think differently, will still agree that everything that is, everything that is observable as a phenomenon, can only exhibit itself in one of two ways. It is either a primal polarity that is able to unify, or it is a primal unity that is able to divide. The operation of nature consists of splitting the united or uniting the divided; this is the eternal movement of systole and diastole of the heartbeat, the inhalation and exhalation of the world in which we live, act, and exist.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Movement
  • Exist
  • Phenomenon

• People make excuses [for not wanting to fight me]. It has a lot to do with my style. I'm a crafty fighter but I can also punch.

  

  Erislandy Lara
  • People
  • Fighting
  • Excuse