Mike Tyson Quotes
Back when I was a kid, I never liked the kind of kids that my kids have become. They're privileged and have things very easy. But I'm proud of them. None of my kids are getting high, they love school, they're very popular.
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I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota.
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I was deeply uncertain of who I was and who I wanted to be. I really thought I wanted to be a much cooler guy than what I was.
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Kids are always going to be around people who break world records and that. It's how you deal with that. I never let it get in the way of my race, but I am always more than happy after the race to sign autographs and have photos.
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Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
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When you love someone so much that you are in pain when you are apart it ends up being destructive. I never want to be in that place again.
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The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.
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You know, I'm kind of a wild crazy workaholic guy.
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I have played cricket on my own terms.
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All I suggest is to make K-12 like higher education. Higher education in the United States is the best in the world because these institutions compete with each other for your tuition dollar. Let's just bring competition to public education.
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The novel is about, for me, sustained and organized looking. I do think that people have a hunger for a sustained engagement, that concentration that the book can offer.
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I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Holland. And when we moved to America, it was just the typical thing except I was really good at it; so was my brother.
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I love an underdog. No, I don't necessarily mean the cartoon. I mean like David, as in Goliath, or the Bears, as in The Bad News Bears.
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Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.
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The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs.
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If you work harder than somebody else, chances are you'll beat him though he has more talent than you.
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How boring would this world be if everyone was the same?
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If you live a rebellious lifestyle, then you rebel against things because they go against your ideals and the integrity of who you are as a person.
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I don't want to spend the next two years in Holiday Inns.
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There's always a sense of tragedy with icons. It happened to both the Princess of Wales and Diana Dors. A lot of people had grown up with them, and everybody loved them. Then, when they had at last found happiness, they were taken in the most dreadful way.
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I started out playing in clubs. I always like existing under ground and over ground at the same time.
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If you don’t delight in the fact that your Father is holy, holy, holy, then you are spiritually dead. You may be in a church. You may go to a Christian school. But if there is no delight in your soul for the holiness of God, you don’t know God. You don’t love God. You’re out of touch with God. You’re asleep to his character.
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Usually when you act, you know where you're going, where the point is.
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So, like I said, I will visit Jeffersonville more often because I now have a little getaway house up there.
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Back when I was a kid, I never liked the kind of kids that my kids have become. They're privileged and have things very easy. But I'm proud of them. None of my kids are getting high, they love school, they're very popular.
