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.
Quotes to Explore
-
People should focus on my foundation, my projects, and everything positive and important that I am doing in Latin America and the around the world.
-
When people lack jobs, opportunity, and ownership of property they have little or no stake in their communities.
-
A complainer is like a Death Eater because there's a suction of negative energy. You can catch a great attitude from great people.
-
If there are negative people around me, I just try to distance myself from that.
-
The pledge drive has everything going against it as broadcasting. It's repetitive. It's ad-libbed by people who can't ad-lib. It's about asking for money, which is something nobody wants to hear, even from their own relatives.
-
I am always surprised people are surprised that people haven't read things.
-
I really admire people who have a natural sense of style. They have a super power.
-
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?
-
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.
-
I don't know if people are born with a worldview or if their thinking is a product of their environment.
-
When people know I wrote 'Thelma and Louise,' they don't want to mess with 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.
-
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.
-
Genocide is an attempt to exterminate a people, not to alter their behavior.
-
Not that I'm against sneaking some notions into people's heads upon occasion. (Or blasting them in outright.)
-
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...
-
'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.
-
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.
-
I didn't get into acting to have a moment, I got into it because of people who've inspired me, like Judi Dench, Holly Hunter, and Jodie Foster.
-
When one knows at an early age that their gift, talent and direction is musical, one tends to focus on that and let nothing interfere or impede the forward motion toward the end of that rainbow. And after 50-something years of rockin' out, you still realise there is no end to that distant rainbow until one's last sunset.
-
I voluntarily inflicted a certain level of insanity on myself.
-
A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down. If it is a good book nothing can hurt him. If it is a bad book nothing can help him.
-
I don't like camera trickery and editing and doubles and all of that.
-
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.
