Mike Tyson Quotes
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There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
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You don't need expensive classes and all kinds of weird equipment if you really want to be in shape. There are great ways to do it that are very economical, it just takes a time commitment, even if it means waking up a half hour a day before the rest of the household gets up because that's the only time you have.
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If you're in a dark place, you're there for a reason. And the only way to get through to those kids or to other people going through the same thing is really to meet them in that dark place and then slowly bring them to the light.
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If I had the opportunity to buy the latest movie that's out that month and watch it on the comfort of my big screen TV, I would pay for that.
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My basic feeling about military intervention is that it should be a last resort, undertaken only to stave off large-scale bloodshed.
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Throwing money at something doesn't really create - forgive me that onerous word - art.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money.
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I'm curvy.
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I believe in civil liberties for homosexuals. I guess I'd have to say I'd draw the line at letting them teach in the schools.
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Here, class attendance is expected and students are required to take notes, which they are tested on. What is missing, it seems to me, is the use of knowledge, the practical training.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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Acting, and the privilege of being able to do it for a living, is so important to me. I don't turn up and just hope for the best. I really fret about it. I do my homework; I prepare myself for the experience of playing a particular character.
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There are still times in my life where I pull back from being totally honest, and I can't imagine a single straight person who would understand that.
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A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.
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When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.
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With 'The Social Network,' I got into it at first because frankly I thought there was a cool courtroom drama to be had with the intellectual properties. And then what further drew me in was that the most extraordinary social networking device ever created was created by the world's most antisocial person. I liked that story.
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'Castle' is a guy living in a fantasy world. He's in his imagination, writing these stories of murder.
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Even on your hiatus, you feel like you need to keep the character in the back of your brain.
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As an actor, it's up to you to show that you can do something else. For me, the interesting actors don't always go where you expect to find them.
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Hell is of this world and there are men who are unhappy escapees from hell, escapees destined eternally to reenact their escape.
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For every idealistic peacemaker willing to renounce his self-defence in favour of a weapons-free world, there is at least one warmaker anxious to exploit the other's good intentions.
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Living life at a young age is like being a sponge thrust into the ocean. You absorb what's around you. If you're around people who are supportive and positive, that's how you look at the world.
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Treat the world the way you want to be treated.
