Mike Tyson Quotes
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It is important to be well read, at least a little bit.
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I am going to change the world, and I'm talking to everybody in the possible world that I can get to that can help me to do that.
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I just heard the latest joke about my hair: 'Do you know what that is on her head? It's a steering wheel to drive the state.'
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The cultural decoding that many American writers require has become an even harder task in the age of globalisation. The experience they describe has grown more private; its essential background, the busy larger world, has receded.
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I don't think auditioning will ever faze me again after the 'Grease' TV experience. It was fierce. There were thousands of people auditioning in four cities. I flew from home in Minneapolis to audition in L.A. I waited in line all day. I arrived at 7 A.M. and wasn't seen until 6 P.M.
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I play-acted and started performing, which just logically led to doing it in school, which led to studying it in college, which led to auditioning to the showcase in New York. And then I had an agent, and I was an actress.
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Nature teaches us that tens of billions of light years may have passed, and life in all of its expressions has always been subjected to an incredible combination of matter and radiation.
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If I don't create, I don't exist.
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I love being a father. It's one of my big jobs is just being a parent. It's one of my favorite things I do.
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Just think about it: what in the name of God would Alabama be without the University of Alabama? What would Oklahoma be without the University of Oklahoma? Nothing.
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I don't like cooking just for myself; I enjoy feeding other people, particularly outdoors.
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Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
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Aviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible.
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My home has to feel airy and bright with natural light. I don't switch on lamps until it is literally black outside.
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We all wanted to copy Vivien Leigh.
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I was a sophomore in college, and I did an industrial video about how to use the Internet - that dates me! It was with John Turturro, somehow they had gotten John Turturro to do this thing, and I was so excited and so nervous I probably drank 10 cups of coffee that morning.
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If movies are causing moral decay, then crime ought to be going up, but crime is going down.
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I knew at a young age, whether I was playing baseball or hockey or lacrosse, that my teammates were counting on me, whether it be to strike the last batter out in a baseball game or score a big goal in a hockey game.
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I really think that's what music and art is about. It's another way to connect to the divine. It's a real pure way of touching that deeper reality beneath our life.
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Life is short, and we should respect every moment of it.
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But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives in a larger setting, that revealed an underlying pattern, and gave us a sense that, against all the depressing and chaotic evidence to the contrary, life had meaning and value.
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Depression, for me, wasn't a dulling but a sharpening, an intensifying, as though I had been living my life in a shell, and now the shell wasn't there. It was total exposure.
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For yesterday and for all tomorrows, we dance the best we know.
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Anger is my biggest enemy in life.
