Miami Quotes - Page 6

• To be a small town kid from Hialeah, Fla., pitching in Miami and representing Team U.S.A., that says it all. It's a kid's dream. Don't pinch me. I don't want to wake up.

  Gio Gonzalez

  Dream, Team, Kids

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• Actually, there are people from all ove - not just Latin America, certainly not just Cuba, but all over Europe, all over the United States. I like that. I like knowing a lot of different types of people. And I can afford to live in a relatively safe part of Miami.

  Dave Barry

  Latin, Europe, Knowing

  "All I Think Is That It's Stupid". Interview with Glenn Garvin, reason.com. December, 1994.

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• In the late-'80s, there was a big push to make American football big in Scotland. The Super Bowl was on TV, but it didn't really catch on. When I was a kid, though, I became a big Miami Dolphins fan. I don't really know why - I just liked the logo, I guess. I didn't really know what was going on.

  Kevin McKidd

  Football, Kids, Miami Dolphins

  "Today" Interview, www.today.com. Ocotber 1, 2007.

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• I've lost bags all over the world and had cases end up in London, Frankfurt, Los Angeles and Miami.

  Brigitte Nielsen

  Bags, World, London

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• I acted when I was a real little kid. My mother was an actress in a Miami theater company comprised of actors from Cuba like her and I was the default kid.

  Yul Vazquez

  Mother, Real, Kids

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• I like Halloween. It gives you a chance to dress up like something you're not, you know? Like when the Miami Dolphins put on football uniforms.

  David Letterman

  Football, Halloween, Miami Dolphins

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• No money, no family, 16 in the middle of Miami.

  Iggy Azalea

  Middle, No Money

  Song: Work, Album: The New Classic, 2014

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• There was however, a group of 507 individuals who were permanent street dwellers [in Miami.] These 507 were not indigent, down-on-their-luck families. They were single people and every one of them was mentally ill.

  Pete Earley

  People, Luck, Groups

  Pete Earley (2007). “Crazy: A Father's Search Through America's Mental Health Madness”, p.103, Penguin

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• In Miami, there's nothing going on. Everybody's depressed; everybody's trying to get jobs, feed their families. At three in the morning you see the fiends just walking around, ready to eat. Evil spirits lurking.

  SpaceGhostPurrp

  Morning, Jobs, Evil

  Interview with Carrie Battan, pitchfork.com. June 18, 2012.

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• John Dorschner, one of our staff writers here at Tropic magazine at The Miami Herald, who is a good friend of mine and an excellent journalist, but a raving liberal, wrote a story about a group that periodically pops up saying that they're going to start their own country or start their own planet or go back to their original planet, or whatever. They were going to "create a libertarian society" on a floating platform in the Caribbean somewhere. I know there's never going to be a country on a floating anything, but if they want to talk about it, that's great.

  Dave Barry

  Country, Good Friend, Groups

  ""All I Think Is That It's Stupid": An Interview with Dave Barry". Interview with Glenn Garvin, reason.com. December, 1994.

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• I wanted to work in either Miami or L.A. After Canada, I wanted warm weather

  Jillian Barberie

  Weather, Canada, Wanted

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• To me, Miami is like Hell and I'm Osiris when it comes to music - I'm underrated and I came through with this rare sound. "East" means east of Miami, which is South Beach. So I'm the "Osiris of the East", I became my own god in music, and I took over South Beach.

  SpaceGhostPurrp

  Beach, Mean, Osiris

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I've started films like Miami Vice where I'm in really good shape and I look back on that film and see the moustache is bigger as I've got a larger face.

  Colin Farrell

  Vices, Looks, Shapes

  "Colin Farrell, Kate Beckinsale, & Jessica Biel Discuss ‘Total Recall’". Interview with Tiffany Rose, screenrant.com. August 7, 2012.

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• A Miami judge issued Florida's first gay marriage license yesterday, which makes it the 36th state to legally perform gay marriages. Of course, most Florida residents are too old to understand what that means. They'll say, 'Well, I think all marriages should be gay, and merry.'

  Jimmy Fallon

  Mean, Gay, Thinking

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• South Carolina put George H.W. Bush into the White House. But George W. Bush into the White House and sent Jeb Bush back to Miami.

  Chuck Todd

  White, House, South Carolina

  "Meet the Press" with Chuck Todd, www.nbcnews.com. February 21, 2016.

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• And so to dismiss these homegrown terrorists as boobs, which is one of the terms that was used in one of the New York newspapers after the Miami raid, is true now, but to bet on that is I think a sure way to lose your bank account.

  Michael Scheuer

  New York, Thinking, Way

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I look forward to making Miami a media mecca.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Media, Nba, Looks

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• I went to Paris when I was about 18 and then went to Miami and New York. I did all of that alone. I did it to myself.

  Sunny Mabrey

  New York, Paris

  "IGN Interviews Sunny Mabrey". Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. May 3, 2006.

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• I didn't want to sign with A$AP Worldwide at the time because I was going through some personal things and I had to go back home to my mother in Miami. I also just wanted to feel independent as a man.

  SpaceGhostPurrp

  Mother, Independent, Home

  Interview with Carrie Battan, pitchfork.com. June 18, 2012.

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• On Thursday, a passenger forced his way into the cockpit of a United Airlines flight from Miami, but was subdued after the co-pilot hit him with a small ax. Good to see our airlines are being kept secure by the latest in 12th century technology.

  Dennis Miller

  Technology, Pilots, Thursday

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• Second only to the sea, the Miami sky has been the greatest comfort in my life past 50. On a good day, when the wind blows from the south, the light here is diffuse and forgiving.

  Iggy Pop

  Good Day, Blow, Past

  "Iggy Pop: 'I was looking for an elegant coma'". Interview with Mark Tutton, www.cnn.com. July 1, 2009.

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• I don't think baseball can abandon the Miami market. If MLB does let that market go vacant, I think it'll be one of the biggest mistakes they ever made.

  Andrew Zimbalist

  Baseball, Mistake, Thinking

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• Every kid's dream is to play for their hometown team, watching when you're younger and stuff like that. It's awesome to be able to be from Miami and play for the Marlins because I was at the stadium as a little kid watching the game.

  Gaby Sanchez

  Dream, Team, Kids

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• There's no difference between a tacky Jew from Miami and a rap star. They both want the Cadillac and the Rolex with the diamonds.

  Brett Ratner

  Stars, Rap, Differences

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm pleased that they performed as well as they did while we've been in Miami and that's about as far as it goes. Now, we've got to go home and play as well or better.

  Gregg Popovich

  Home, Nba Championships, Play

  "2014 NBA Finals: Spurs keep foot on pedal, win Game 4 convincingly against James, Heat" by Michael Lee, www.washingtonpost.com. June 13, 2014.

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