Mike Tyson Quotes
When you have something in life that you want to accomplish greatly, you have to be willing to give up your happiness…I’ve lost all my sensitivity as far as being embarrassed, being shy, you just have to lose that.
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The Afghans themselves say that if you put two Afghans in a room, you get three factions.
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I have a vernacular house on the seaside in Northumberland and an Edwardian semi in south Manchester. They're both exactly as big as they need to be. I can't be doing with an ostentatious, big house - you can only be in one room at a time.
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Every morning I wake up and thank God.
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I firmly believe that one of the best kept secrets to soft and glowing skin is moisturisation.
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This invisibility, however, means that the opportunities for creative research are infinite.
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To be thrown onto the stand-up stage is an experience that you cannot fathom until you're actually there, because there's no place to go, and everyone is looking at you and you can't even see them because of the lights. And yet you have to manage to start talking and be funny on top of it.
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I told the Mucinex people, 'You picked me because I always sound sick'. They were like, 'Well, it doesn't hurt'.
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Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.
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I like to discover new things.
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I grew up in a Hindu household but went to a Roman Catholic school. I grew up with a mother who said, 'I'll arrange a marriage for you at 18,' but she also said that we could achieve anything we put our minds to an encourage us to dream of becoming prime minister or president.
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The notion that female initiative is useless because men know what they want is particularly odd - most people don't even know what they want for dinner.
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We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.
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I train for whatever happens. I'm prepared for wherever the fight goes.
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I've learned to be more accepting of myself. I'm 37, not 18, and I've got the lines to prove it. I try to remind myself that a girl can have it all, just not all at once.
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I think there is one higher office than president and I would call that patriot.
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In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune.
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My valleys are higher than most people's peaks. I stay at that level.
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Thousands of years ago, civilizations flourished in Africa which suffer not at all by comparison with those of other continents. In those centuries, Africans were politically free and economically independent. Their social patterns were their own and their cultures truly indigenous.
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You have to love your children unselfishly. That's hard. But it's the only way.
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We need to strengthen such inner values as contentment, patience and tolerance, as well as compassion for others. Keeping in mind that it is expressions of affection rather than money and power that attract real friends, compassion is the key to ensuring our own well-being.
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Don't let obstacles along the road to eternity shake your confidence in God's promise. The Holy Spirit is God's seal that you will arrive.
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I like those stories that capture the brutality of life, but there's still some kind of melancholy romance.
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I love what I do for a living, but the other side, that aspect of being famous or a celebrity's got zero interest to me.
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When you have something in life that you want to accomplish greatly, you have to be willing to give up your happiness…I’ve lost all my sensitivity as far as being embarrassed, being shy, you just have to lose that.
