Pitbull (Armando Christian Pérez) Quotes
I already had three strikes against me. One, I have light skin. Two, I'm from Miami, which wasn't getting looked at at the time. Three, I'm Cuban. But now, I've made everything that stacked against me into a virtue.
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I never really address myself to any image anybody has of me. That's like fighting with ghosts.
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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.
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Writing is only the frosting on my cake. I'm whole without it.
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Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment.
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My label understands that I am really attached to Malaysia, that I come home a lot.
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If you compare me to an actor, I'm probably one of the best boxers in the profession. But if you compare me as a boxer, I'm probably one of the best actors.
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Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.
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I was a good bartender. I wouldn't say I was the best bartender in New York, but I could hold my own.
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I say violence is necessary. It is as American as cherry pie.
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I've had money thrown onstage, dollars, couple of five-dollar bills. I took the money, but it wasn't much.
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There are far too many people in university in Britain. If you want to make money, be a plumber.
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I was always the first person in the theater all the time. If it was an eight-o'clock curtain, I was here at five-thirty, and it wasn't that I needed to vocalize, because I was all warmed up. I couldn't wait for it to begin.
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The seeing of things as they really are - the seeing of a proportion veiled from other eyes (together with the power of expression), is what makes a man an artist. What makes him a great artist is a high fervour of spirit, which produces a superlative, instead of a comparative, clarity of vision.
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The ordinary method of education is to imprint ideas and opinions, in the strict sense of the word, prejudices, on the mind of the child, before it has had any but a very few particular observations. It is thus that he afterwards comes to view the world and gather experience through the medium of those ready-made ideas, rather than to let his ideas be formed for him out of his own experience of life, as they ought to be.
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The father of a daughter is nothing but a high-class hostage. A father turns a stony face to his sons, berates them, shakes his antlers, paws the ground, snorts, runs them off into the underbrush, but when his daughter puts her arm over his shoulder and says, 'Daddy, I need to ask you something,' he is a pat of butter in a hot frying pan.
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The Europeans wanted gold and slaves, like everybody else; but at the same time they wanted statues put up to themselves as people who had done good things for the slaves.
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I already had three strikes against me. One, I have light skin. Two, I'm from Miami, which wasn't getting looked at at the time. Three, I'm Cuban. But now, I've made everything that stacked against me into a virtue.
