Mike Tyson Quotes
Anything that helps pay the bills, I love it. Anything that makes people happy, I'm happy with that.
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I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K.
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Graffiti has an interesting relationship to the broader world of hip-hop: It's part of the culture, but also in a weird way a stepchild of the culture.
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I realized pretty soon that I have to do more than just play bass in the background way. So, I developed a kind of playing which only a handful of musicians accepted.
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My experience growing up in a rough and tumble town in the blue-collar world of Western Pennsylvania in the 1970s was that anything a man did was always more important than anything a woman did.
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I have a strong upper body; I'm an arms swimmer, and I always have been.
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I don't jog, if I die I want to be sick.
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The running joke about the Premio Cervantes, the most coveted literary prize in the Spanish-speaking world, which was established by Spain's Ministry of Culture in 1976, is that Cervantes himself wouldn't have received it. This is because he was, in his heart, the most anti-Spanish of Spanish writers.
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Once you come and see Kiss, you either love us or you hate us.
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I hear odd tracks from my albums every now and again on the radio, or maybe a friend plays me something.
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When you're writing a novel - at least the way I write is I work from what I would call 'emotional atmosphere,' ambiance to ambiance.
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A lot of people will call me nuts or crazy, but I've always been pretty stable. By some people's standards, I might be crazy. But I realize that I'm not going to harm anyone, and the only place that I live is within my own universe, really - so it's O.K.
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When I was a little kid, I used to watch with my brother when there was Macho Man and Hulk Hogan. But then I fell out of it for a few years.
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Right now I'm so old that if I had a big gush of money, I don't know what I'd do with it. I don't travel anymore. I don't need anything, don't want anything. I'd give it to my son, I guess, and let him enjoy it.
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But the fact a person denies that he is theorising is no reason for taking him at his word and failing to investigate what implicit theory is involved in his statements.
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The only thing documentary filmmakers have to work with, at least the way I make films, is trust. That's been true of everyone from James Carville and George Stephanopoulos to the kids in 'American High' to the soldiers in 'Military Diaries' to Anna Wintour to Dick Cheney.
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I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
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All those who are around me are the bridge to my success, so they are all important.
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I have a strong desire to communicate what I feel about the world. That's exciting to me.
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I don't want to tell people what I make. It's a lot more than I ever dreamed of as a kid. I never think about it.
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I'm an entertainer. I get up on stage and I try to make people enjoy my music, and that political arena - I'm going to stay out of it, right out.
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My mom, if you asked her if she was interested in whether or not people gambled, would say no.
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Artwork can be a portal, a kind of rethinking and reseeing of the world as we live it.
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Anything that helps pay the bills, I love it. Anything that makes people happy, I'm happy with that.
