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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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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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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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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What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since the overwhelming majority of people in Ireland and Northern Ireland voted in favour of the agreement signed on Good Friday 1998, paving the way for Northern Ireland to become the exciting and inspirational place that it is today.
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From a young age, I was encouraged to sing, dance and learn folk and popular songs in Spanish.
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We've long believed teachers know best what their students need to succeed, and that includes the creation of healthy, supportive school communities.
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In dating, the question is how many Tinder knockoffs are we going to have, and are any of them going to take off?
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The world we live in has been and is being increasingly politicised so that our daily experience is more and more a matter of public policy.
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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.
