Mike Tyson Quotes
In order to be a friend to anybody, you have to be a friend to yourself. If you're not a friend to yourself, there's no way you're gonna have any friends.
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Education is so important.
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Raising ambition in 2014 is crucial for arriving at a meaningful climate agreement in 2015.
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I don't think there will ever be a time I don't write, and I hope there will never be a time I don't act.
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God blessed me with two unbelievable parents, and I am just like both of them. I have the smile and charisma of my mother and the big heart of my mom, because she wants to save the world and help the world, so I am just like her.
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The Queen's wedding dress in 1947, there was some embroidery on the train which was definitely there to illustrate new dawn/post-war optimism, that sort of thing.
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One of the things that I was always, and still am, is quite resourceful.
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I think one of the most boring things is a person's taste.
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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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I want the world to get a feel of me, showing them the way I am and the way I get down.
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I was an umpire at little league softball games. I only lasted a few games because I wasn't one hundred percent clear on all the rules.
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As a film actor, you don't often get that opportunity to meet with your audience and take your applause on stage.
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I began photographing in 1946. Before that, I was a painter and drawer, with my mother and father's support. They were a bit pissed when I went into photography. They thought photographers were guys who took pictures at weddings.
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We all wanted to copy Vivien Leigh.
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I'm not hiding anything. What you see is what you get.
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In the name of the rule of law, democracy and human rights, we cannot accept that the rights of individuals (Arab or Muslim) be trampled upon, or that populations are targeted and discriminated against in the name of the war against terrorism.
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The greatest compliment a writer can be given is that a story and character hold a reader spellbound. I'm caught up in the story writing and I miss a good deal of sleep thinking about it and working out the plot points.
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The safest nuclear power or energy policy is to realize 'zero nuclear power.'
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I felt uncomfortable in cliques.
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If you're going to give people authority and hold them responsible and ultimately accountable for their performance, you've got to get out of the way.
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Critics can be your most important friend. I don't read criticism of my stuff only because when it's bad, it's rough-and when it's good, it's not good enough.
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Sometimes I have experienced at the start of a film you're very excited and enthusiastic and you've done all your preparation internally and externally and you start the film and it's all go... Then your attention goes somewhere else. Your energy goes into telling the story, so you don't have the same amount of energy to be objective, and that's okay because sometimes you become a subject of the story and you're inside it so much that you don't need to keep on looking on the outside.
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War is horrible because it strangles youth.
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In order to be a friend to anybody, you have to be a friend to yourself. If you're not a friend to yourself, there's no way you're gonna have any friends.
