Mike Tyson Quotes

I'm a historian, and that freaks me out.

Mike Tyson

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• I have been cooking with preserved lemon for years, using it left, right and centre, but I am still far from reaching my limit.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Life
  • Cooking
  • Limit

• I always feel like I want to do my career my own way.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Want
  • Career
  • Way

• Ah, life is a gate, a way, a path to Paradise anyway, why not live for fun and joy and love or some sort of girl by a fireside, why not go to your desire and LAUGH…

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Life
  • Live
  • Why

• Now is now. It can never be a long time ago.

  

  Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • Time
  • Long

• In such misfortunes my Mother was of an heroic spirit, in suffering patiently when there was no remedy, and being industrious where she thought she could help.

  

  Margaret Cavendish
  • She
  • Help
  • Mother

• Design should not dominate things, should not dominate people. It should help people. That's its role.

  

  Dieter Rams
  • People
  • Help
  • Design

• Nobody wanted to help me get my start, not to mention it's tough being a female in a man's world of stand-up comedy. It's a very competitive world, and it was a challenge to find my own voice, stick to my guns.

  

  Anjelah Johnson
  • Up
  • World
  • Help

• I went to Brunel University and very much wanted to go on to do a PhD in management, but then my acting career started to take off. In those days when you switched on the box there were hardly any brown or black faces.

  

  Archie Panjabi
  • Career
  • Black
  • Management

• I can understand how people who don't really follow baseball can look at 'dead arm' and think the absolute worst. Basically, a dead arm is when your arm kind of feels a little heavy, kind of feels weak, and basically, it's just muscular fatigue.

  

  Matt Harvey
  • People
  • Baseball

• Nobody really knows what they're doing. Some are just better at pretending like they do.

  

  Kumail Nanjiani

• The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and love, and young men used to machines which induce inertia, and fear, are near impotent.

  

  Edward Dahlberg
  • Men
  • Fear

• That's the hard part about sport: as men we haven't started to be in our prime, but as athletes we are old people. I needed support. I lost trust and did stupid things.

  

  Boris Becker
  • People
  • Men
  • Support

• Ripple is focused on enabling a global network of financial institutions to use our software to create what we call the Internet of Value.

  

  Brad Garlinghouse
  • Value
  • Financial

• The government is also looking at further benefits including enhanced capital allowances; the use of Tax Incremental Finance; and extra help from UK Trade and Investment on inward investment and trade opportunities.

  

  Andy Sawford
  • Help

• I played guitar when I was a kid a little bit. I can tool around with a guitar, but I'm certainly not a musician.

  

  Matt Ross

• I don't think there's anything wrong with someone having to read a poem twice. Or even a book.

  

  George Murray
  • Book

• Constant muscular activity was natural for the child, and, therefore, the immense effort of the drillmaster teachers to make children sit still was harmful and useless.

  

  G. Stanley Hall
  • Children
  • Effort

• There is no question in my mind that we live in one of the truly bestial centuries in human history. There are plenty of signposts for the future historian, and what do they say? They say 'Auschwitz' and 'Dresden' and 'Hiroshima' and 'Vietnam' and 'Napalm.' For many years we all woke up to the daily body count on the radio. And if there were a way to kill people with the B Minor Mass, the Pentagon-Madison Avenue axis would have found it.

  

  Erwin Chargaff
  • Radio
  • Historian
  • Human History

• I just want to be really clear about this: Anyone who has read Colin Powell's biography - there's an entire section where he talks about experiencing segregation. Colin Powell did not appear when he became head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. That's not how it happened.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Want
  • Just
  • Clear

• I would expect illegal alien parents to take care of their children. If it means the kids go back home with them, that's what happens. If it means there are legal relatives in the United States that can take care of them, that can happen to. But I believe it's the parents responsibility to take care of the kids.

  

  Mo Brooks
  • Parents
  • Responsibility
  • Happens

• If I ever get out of here, thought of giving it all away to a registered charity.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Giving
  • Law
  • Charity

• Where do people get off saying the Beatles should give $200,000,000 to South America? You know, America has poured billions into places like that. It doesn't mean a damn thing. After they've eaten that meal, then what? It lasts for only a day. After the $200,000,000 is gone, then what? It goes round and round in circles. You can pour money in forever. After Peru, then Harlem, then Britain. There is no one concert. We would have to dedicate the rest of our lives to one world concert tour, and I'm not ready for it. Not in this lifetime, anyway.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • People
  • Beatles
  • South America

• I'm a historian, and that freaks me out.

  

  Mike Tyson
  • Historian
  • Freaks