Don King Quotes

Mike Tyson was one of the most terrific athletes I've ever met.

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• If I read a scary story in the newspaper, I find I'm haunted by it.

  

  Karen Thompson Walker
  • Story
  • Find
  • Scary

• I don't have any dream role. I give my 100% to every character I play, and when the film clicks, it automatically becomes a dream role.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Character
  • Dream
  • Play

• It is impossible for me to estimate how many of my early impressions of the world, correct and the opposite, came to me through newspapers. Homicide, adultery, no-hit pitching, and Balkanism were concepts that, left to my own devices, I would have encountered much later in life.

  

  A. J. Liebling
  • Life
  • World
  • Impossible

• In my previous career as a chief executive of high-tech companies, I experienced firsthand the endless possibilities when people from diverse backgrounds work together. They get to know one another and quickly learn that they share more in common than they originally thought.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • People
  • Work
  • Together

• Terms like that, 'Humane Society,' are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • People
  • Mind
  • Society

• I always thought that record would stand until it was broken.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Thought
  • Broken
  • Stand

• Applause is the most powerful thing... people talk about the sound of it, but what I hear is glee.

  

  C. C. H. Pounder
  • People
  • Powerful
  • Sound

• Americans don't want cowboys to be gay.

  

  Larry McMurtry
  • Want
  • Gay
  • Cowboys

• For a production that suggests a mysterious dreamscape, I have a particular affection for the Vivian Beaumont Theater. It is the largest dramatic space available in New York City in terms of plays, although musicals have been done there very successfully as well.

  

  Jack O'Brien
  • Done
  • City
  • Space

• Fear is present when we forget that we are a part of God's divine design. Learning to experience authentic love means abandoning ego's insistence that you have much to fear and that you are in an unfriendly world. You can make the decision to be free from fear and doubt and return to the brilliant light of love that is always with you.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • World
  • God
  • Love

• I watched a lot of comedy growing up.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Comedy

• I started writing juvenile novels around 1985. I never really thought of it as a career, but more as a way to make a living.

  

  Natsuo Kirino
  • Writing
  • Career
  • Thought

• The RFA requires federal agencies to assess the economic impact of their regulations on small firms, and if significant, consider less burdensome alternatives. Federal agencies sometimes fail to comply at all, or simply 'check the box,' fulfilling the letter of the law, while missing the purpose of the law entirely.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Small
  • Law
  • Purpose

• I cite these events because I think they underline two very disturbing phenomena - the loss of U.S. international credibility, the growing U.S. international isolation.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Think
  • Growing
  • Loss

• The swarm of thoughts, the swarm of dreams Of inaccessible Utopia. A mountainous music always seemed To be falling and to be passing away.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Music
  • Thoughts

• I happen to have a giant ego, an admission that will not shock my close friends or critics. I am not uncomfortable in saying that because the ego of a man often gets great things done.

  

  Joe Jamail
  • Great
  • Done
  • Friends

• I'm from Michigan and a down-home girl.

  

  Jana Kramer
  • Home
  • Girl

• Dickens had more energy than anyone in the world, and he expected his sons to be like him, and they couldn't be.

  

  Claire Tomalin
  • World
  • Energy

• My father brought me a box of books once when I was about three and a half or four. I remember the carton they were in and the covers with illustrations by Newell C. Wyeth.

  

  Paula Fox
  • Remember
  • Father

• The pressure is coming out of the governor's office and the business community, ... They are the big dogs.

  

  Eric Johnson
  • Business
  • Pressure
  • Dogs

• Every time we can't drill a well in America, terrorism is being funded. Every onerous regulation puts American lives at risk.

  

  Harold Hamm
  • Time
  • American
  • America

• There's Beatles books and T-shirts and rings, and one thing and another. To buy my daughter all these things, I had to sell her brother.

  

  Allan Sherman
  • Brother
  • Daughter
  • Books

• Because we cannot know what God is, but only what He is not, we cannot consider how He is but only how He is not.

  

  Thomas Aquinas
  • God
  • Know
  • Consider

• Mike Tyson was one of the most terrific athletes I've ever met.

  

  Don King