Mike Tyson Quotes
In order to succeed greatly, you have to be prepared to fail greatly. If you can't do both of them, you've got a problem.
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Once you are a model, you do have to fly a million red-eye flights, and you do have to entertain a different client every single day.
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Having a million-dollar net worth doesn't make you a genius, and having less than a million-dollar net worth doesn't make you a fool.
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There is sometimes a tendency to assume that everyone in this great country has adequate housing. But when you go to certain places, certain neighborhoods, both urban and rural, you find out that's not the case, and I think we have to do much more.
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I know some black actresses who have to wait every 19 films for a role. I can be cast in practically every one as a young white male.
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I tend to lean toward strong female stories. I want to make things that don't already exist out there.
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We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every 10 minutes.
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I'm a Republican. I don't want to go to heaven and have to face my family up there and tell them I voted for a Democrat.
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All I know is stars and hits, you know what I mean? I don't just sign a guy because he has a hot record. I sign a guy because he's a star. He's a pillar of the community.
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A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.
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Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.
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There have been weeks when I've not been hydrating properly or not eating properly or training too hard. When I do that, I don't feel good. It has to be the exact formula.
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We should not underestimate the ability of people to do wrong if they want to do so.
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I always say it took me 10 minutes to write 'Cars,' but if I am honest it could have been even less than that - and it has been a really successful song over the years. It is still massively used, in advertising, in films, and people do cover versions of it a lot.
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When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.
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I remember being described often as 'the horrifically ugly Jack McCall,' and I kept thinking it took me about 10 seconds to get like that.
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Success is the sweetest revenge.
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I want to make sure that that future that we're creating is one that is the best it can be for people around the world, and also one that includes the full range of our talent and our skills - and, you know, gender and ethnicity, geography - to solving the world's problems.
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I just like a good story. I want the story to be good, and I want the character to be different than the last one I played. That's not always possible, but that's what I want.
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Be truthful, and the result is bound to be amazingly interesting.
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Who wants to get a worse diagnosis of their cancer, just to keep a human doctor in the job?
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Looking good is the best revenge.
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In order to succeed greatly, you have to be prepared to fail greatly. If you can't do both of them, you've got a problem.
