Mike Tyson Quotes

They called me a 'rapist' and a 'recluse.' I'm not a recluse.

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• I feel nowadays a lot of bands can be too overly produced. There's something about the leather pants and bare bodies and Axl Rose running back and forth on a stage and going crazy. I love all that.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Crazy
  • Feel
  • Stage

• You'd never look at a Rembrandt and say, 'That's just wood and canvas and paint - how much?!' It's all about how many people want it. It works on a pair of jeans as well - they're just material and stitching, and as soon as you walk out of the shop, they're worth nothing.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • People
  • Walk
  • Canvas

• From a spinner's perspective, in India it was never easy for me to judge where to stand: how far forward, how far back, because on Indian wickets the ball does not carry as much as abroad. That is true of slip fielding in general. I wouldn't say only for spinner – even for a fast bowler, that holds true.

  

  Rahul Dravid
  • True
  • Judge
  • Perspective

• Audrey Hepburn has influenced me.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Me
  • Influenced
  • Audrey

• You cannot contribute anything to the ideal condition of mind and heart known as Brotherhood, however much you preach, posture, or agree, unless you live it.

  

  Faith Baldwin
  • Live
  • Mind
  • Heart

• I paint, and painting gives me my much needed break from my routine. Painting was a subject in my school, and I developed a liking for the lines and colours and started practising in my free time. It helps me de-stress amidst my hectic shooting schedules.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Time
  • School
  • Free

• The sun is always shining. We have oxygen, trees, birds. There's so much good things on Earth, still. We haven't destroyed everything.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Good
  • Earth
  • Sun

• Sorry. My testing organization is either too small, or too large, depending on how you look at it.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Small
  • Organization
  • Sorry

• I wrote my first single, 'Keep Your Head Up,' and that's what got me on the radio and helped me develop a whole base around the country.

  

  Andy Grammer
  • Up
  • Country
  • Single

• I'll only move in with my husband. There's no question of a live-in relationship.

  

  Deepika Padukone
  • Live
  • Relationship
  • Question

• I don't have to save rock. I don't even like rock that much.

  

  Trent Reznor Nine Inch Nails
  • Rock

• I don't trawl record shops anymore. I usually hear music in bars or at friends' houses.

  

  Andrew Eldritch The Sisters of Mercy
  • Music
  • Friends

• I sometimes think that so much of our life takes place inside our heads - in memory or imagination or interpretation or speculation - that if I really want to change my life, I might best begin by changing my mind.

  

  Pico Iyer
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Imagination

• I earned my Ph.D. in philosophy, and one of my specializations was the logic and mathematics of game theory. I've also got a degree in drama, so I know about stories, characterizations, plot arcs, and the like. Lots of game designers can do one or the other: I've got the skills for both.

  

  Brendan Myers
  • Game
  • Drama
  • Logic

• I might be more of a tomboy on the ice, but when it comes to fashion and things like that, I'm a total girlie-girl.

  

  Ashley Wagner
  • Girl
  • Fashion

• I was so disappointed by the 2012 election that I decided I had to do something. And I thought, 'I have something to offer - I should be able to have a seat at the table.'

  

  Elise Stefanik

• But which is the stone that supports the bridge?

  

  Kublai Khan
  • Bridge

• I want to get up and ride my horses, do what I love doing. I don't want to be recognised.

  

  Charlotte Dujardin
  • Up

• You can never have enough garlic. With enough garlic, you can eat The New York Times.

  

  Morley Safer
  • Enough
  • Times
  • Garlic

• I am essentially a recluse who will have very little to do with people wherever he may be. I think that most people only make me nervous - that only by accident, and in extremely small quantities, would I ever be likely to come across people who wouldn't.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • People
  • Nervous
  • Recluse

• In the life of each of us there is a place remote and islanded, and given to endless regret or secret happiness.

  

  Sarah Orne Jewett
  • Secret
  • Regret
  • Given

• I'm an animal. I'm an animal in real-life and an animal onstage. I never became a recluse, I never lived up in the Hills where I didn't see real life. You know what I mean? I'm not still living in Brooklyn, but I'm still living in the street. I go out by myself, I don't go out with a million body guards, I run my own errands.

  

  Andrew Dice Clay
  • Animal
  • Real Life
  • Guards

• I never became a recluse where I got away from people and who they are and how they think. I'm very much in touch with the world.

  

  Andrew Dice Clay
  • Touch
  • Recluse
  • Got away

• They called me a 'rapist' and a 'recluse.' I'm not a recluse.

  

  Mike Tyson
  • Recluse
  • Rapist