Mike Tyson Quotes
Sometimes you have to wait for the right deal. They all seem good, at least at first, and they may make you some quick money. But when the right deal comes, and it fits into your [overall] plan, it's just overwhelming success. Sometimes, with the long-term deals, you have to take a risk if you're going to get a reward. It's exactly like fighting. Sometimes you have to take chances to get that huge win.
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When think about the Frank Oceans of the world, it's not like we don't have gay men within the hip-hop community.
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Once I took a bus from my home in Maryland to Philadelphia to live on the streets with some musicians for a few weeks, and then my parents sent me to boarding school at Andover to shape me up.
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It wasn't until the first season ended that I went to my first Star Trek convention. It was in Denver. There were two and a half thousand people there.
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When you've got kids, you turn into Mom, and that's it.
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Politics is the womb in which war develops.
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I've done comedy, and I've done drama. I've sort of been a journeyman in my career so far.
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The best people to provide valuable information about any society are the children of that society who belong to its culture and are part of its collective conscience.
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If Obamacare is so wonderful, why is it that its loudest advocates don't want to be subject to it?
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I get very bored easily. I'm a child of the Internet or whatever; I want more and more of new and interesting things.
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There are films you see that only reach your eyes. Then there are films that you can watch... that reach down to your throat, or reach your heart. 'In the Mood for Love,' though, reached all the way to my belly.
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I don't think the label makes the artist or the artist makes the label. It's the music that makes everything work or not.
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OS X is sweet: it's simple and intuitive, and I think GNOME shares a lot of values with it.
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If I present a boring personal life to my readers, it's going to be harder for them to think of my novels as thrilling.
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The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake - you can't learn anything from being perfect.
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When Pakistan was carved out of India's rib in 1947, it was assumed by some that Bollywood's Muslim stars would defect to the new state and thus boost the Lahore film industry. But Lollywood did not happen.
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On September 11 last year international terrorism entered a new dimension.
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When I watch myself, I see nothing but faults, like, 'This I need to do different, this I need to do different,' and so if there comes a point in time where I'm like, 'Man, this whole thing is just getting really stale,' I am not opposed to being the bad guy again.
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People who think about art as an investment are pathetic.
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There's always something happening in pretty much every moment of every scene of everything I've ever worked on in longform that's not being expressed or acknowledged.
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Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win - essential to success.
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What sets Iris Stevenson apart is her success in a system that in no way supports her - with the hardest possible children to convert.
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All I want to do is make my mother incredibly proud. That's all I've ever wanted to do.
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Sometimes you have to wait for the right deal. They all seem good, at least at first, and they may make you some quick money. But when the right deal comes, and it fits into your [overall] plan, it's just overwhelming success. Sometimes, with the long-term deals, you have to take a risk if you're going to get a reward. It's exactly like fighting. Sometimes you have to take chances to get that huge win.
