Pitbull (Armando Christian Pérez) Quotes
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I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.
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Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.
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Sometimes I'd like to play the bad guy and sometimes I'd like to die in a movie.
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I've listened to female vocalists my whole life. That's what I love. I still listen to guys' vocals and don't get taken aback a lot.
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Life is a game. Money is how we keep score.
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Chinese consumption, particularly high-end consumption, is booming.
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There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.
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The study of error is not only in the highest degree prophylactic, but it serves as a stimulating introduction to the study of truth.
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The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
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Beauty is the promise of happiness.
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I wish I wasn't so in love, wasn't so interested, in the Internet. I wish I spent less time online and more time outside and in my head. Writing requires solitude and deep, deep daydreaming, and the Internet just kills that - its lure is toward the external; it asks you to flit from place to place.
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I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work.
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I work with gold that holds our past and diamonds that see the future and rubies that long for love. It's just a way of telling a story.
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I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts.
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I was very innocent and shielded as a child, so I didn't know a lot about music or dancing. When I was in Primary Six, no one would participate in a talent show, so I decided to go on. When the audience applauded me, I felt euphoric, and I started dancing right after that!
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I make the music my ears want to hear, I wear the clothes my body wants to wear and the ones boys call me back for, and I generally make the songs that my feet dance to.
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I work with people like Spielberg and Abrams all the time.
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When you sample something, you're using the crutch of borrowing chords and melodies from a song that's already great, that's already stood the test of time, that's already special. When you're trying to do it all from scratch, you're writing something brand new that has to stand on its own.
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Everybody in America who didn't come over the Bering Strait ice bridge stole his land from somebody else.
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Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.
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Sometimes it's good to remember who you are outside of work.
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Stand-up is what I am; stand-up is what made me.
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The magic happens when you take facts and figures, features and benefits, decks and PowerPoints - relatively soulless information - and embed them in the telling of a purposeful story. Your 'tell' renders an experience to your audience, making the information inside the story memorable, resonant and actionable.
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I work hard. But I play hard, too.
