Mike Tyson Quotes
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In my opinion - in Georgia, there's a town called Lula. And Lula, Georgia, has the best peaches.
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Luck marches with those who give their very best.
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I would like to direct.
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I don't have time to sit up and write songs all day. Maybe one day when my kids get older.
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When I was 15 years old, I read an article about Ivan Boesky, the well-known takeover trader - turned out years later it was all on inside information! But before that came to light, he was very successful, very flamboyant. And I thought, 'This is what I want to do.' So I'm 15 years old, I decide I'm going to Wall Street.
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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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Honestly, since the Diane Sawyer piece, every day it's like, it's exciting to go to the mailbox... Because I get letters every day from all of these people from all over the world.
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Democrats and Republicans have been very keen to make home ownership almost a national purpose.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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When I'm dancing, I don't know where the confidence comes from, but I just pretend I'm someone else, I think, and then I go out and dance.
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Each dress symbolizes the age that it's appropriate for.
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In common with all Protestant or Jewish cultures, America was developed on the idea that your word is your bond. Otherwise, the frontier could never have been opened, 'cause it was lawless. A man's word had to mean something.
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Comedy can be harder because if you aren't making the audience laugh, they're going to turn on you quicker. They'll go along with mediocre drama more than they'll go along with mediocre comedy.
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If you don't have liberty and self-determination, you've got nothing, that's what this is what this country is built on. And this is the ultimate self-determination, when you determine how and when you're going to die when you're suffering.
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I wanted to publish a book simply to be buried with it; that's all I wanted. I had no ambition beyond that.
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When you speak directly at things and don't say you're going to try to do something or that you hope to do something, the universe will work with you. Think about it this way - a boomerang goes out and comes back to you if you throw it. If you throw it out at the universe, it will come back down to you on Earth.
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My parents are divorced, and seeing that was really painful for me. Really painful for me. But that's also a big part of why I'm intrigued by the dynamics between people – because I was close to something that fell apart.
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I'm never away from my boys for more than three days.
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The Internet has done nothing but good for comedy all around. Comedians no longer have to rely on TV execs and club owners deciding if they are funny or not.
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I was raised Catholic. I didn't appreciate the guilt and sin part of it.
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If there is one constant to my life, it is that you cannot tell me 'no.'
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We sacrifice to dress till household joys and comforts cease. Dress drains our cellar dry, and keeps our larder lean.
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I don't think you can learn to be a complete musician. That has to come from within, and it entails a lot of sacrifice.
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I sacrifice so much of my life, can I at least get laid?
