Mike Tyson Quotes
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With the backdrop of its geostrategic location and historical ties with the Middle East, Turkey has an essential role to play for the stability, peace and social development of the region.
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You know what I like? I like classic stuff. I like 'The Andy Griffith Show' – the variety of characters was so amazing to me.
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I know I'm good enough. I don't need to show it to you. Either you know who I am, or you don't.
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The confidence and respect shown by my countrymen in calling me to be the Chief Magistrate of a Republic holding a high rank among the nations of the earth have inspired me with feelings of the most profound gratitude.
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If you'd have told me five years ago that I'd have done all this – two books, some television and everything – I'd panic, I'd be scared.
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There are lots of actors who insist on speaking the lines themselves, and you hear the same thing from directors and the audience, but I don't think it's worth getting het up about. I think it makes more sense to use someone who speaks that country's language: that's what voice actors are for.
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I had a reporter ask me what it was like to have my best years over so soon. It stayed with me.
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Homosexuality in Russia is a crime and the punishment is seven years in prison, locked up with the other men. There is a three year waiting list.
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I think, as far as branching out with acting, it would take something really right on the mark to distract me from music, because music is everything to me.
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I am not a hound; I am an attention-seeker. Very different animal. My kind of attention requires greater finesse.
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I don't have any real spirituality in my life - I'm kind of an atheist - but when music can take me to the highest heights, it's almost like a spiritual feeling. It fills that void for me.
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You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.
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Hearing my songs in public freaks me out a bit. There was one restaurant I really liked in L.A., but I had to stop going there when they started playing my music. It felt kinda awkward.
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After 9/11, I changed a lot of the ways I viewed the world. I realized my comedy and my politics and my view of the world did not match. I had to start writing from my heart.
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I am quite looking forward to working with Shah Rukh Khan.
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The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
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Personally, fame never really played any part in our family life.
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I didn't wake up and decide to become an activist. But you couldn't help notice the inequities, the injustices. It was all around you.
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The American people are smart. They've gotten sick of the predictable hyperpartisan talking points and canned anger.
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One of the reasons I admire David Lindsay-Abaire's work is that he, like the Greeks I've spent so much of my professional life contemplating, is not afraid of taking on the big stuff - huge, human, moral issues - what do we owe to those we love?
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Winds are advertisements of all they touch, however much or little we may be able to read them; telling their wanderings even by their scents alone.
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I tended to write poems about both social and spiritual problems, and some problems one doesn't really want to solve, and so the problems themselves are solved. You certainly don't want to solve problems in poems that haven't been solved in the world.
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We have lingered in the chambers of the sea By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown Till human voices wake us... and we drown.
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My main objective is to be professional but to kill him.
