Mike Tyson Quotes
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There's a lot more to me than just power.
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The success of 'The Shadow of the Wind' made me very happy, but it did not change my perspective or the way I was.
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One thing you know, if you've been in technology a while, you're only as good as the last thing you did. No one wants an original iPod. No one wants an iPhone 3GS.
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A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years.
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I wrote music as soon as I knew notation.
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I've started doing my coaching badges, I'd like to be a manager one day.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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Catholic schools in Indonesia routinely accept non-Catholic students, but exempt them from studying religion. Obama's school documents, though, wrongly list him as being Indonesian.
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I just work out hard enough that, if I'm craving something, I eat it and know I'm going to burn it off the next day with extra intensity.
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I'm not more or less conscious than any other rapper out there.
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I don't run behind authority.
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I've been into every doo-wop there is. I think I went to the university of doo-wop-ology.
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All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
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When I'd go to Israel, I felt like a tourist. My social and professional ties had started to dissolve, and it confused me. I didn't know whether I should stay here in Paris or go back to Israel, or even cut off all my ties with Israel so I could really plant roots here. Or maybe go somewhere else altogether.
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I'm interested in the murky areas where there are no clear answers - or sometimes multiple answers. It's here that I try to imagine patterns or codes to make sense of the unknowns that keep us up at night. I'm also interested in the invisible space between people in communication; the space guided by translation and misinterpretation.
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Animals play a big part in my life, on tour or at home.
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Everyone has the right to their lives and to look the way they want to! Tomorrow I can put on 25 kilos... it's my choice, my body!
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As a teenager, rather than setting myself on a course to pursue fame (quite common growing up in L.A., the entertainment capital of the world), happiness, fulfillment, and spiritual enlightenment (also quite common), I skipped right on to trying to be successful. 'Let's just get on with it,' I felt. 'Onward' became my motto.
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The repercussions of what you put out and what people gravitate to in your music never registered at all. I never had that thing that maybe other bands have - a specific idea of what they are and what their sound is.
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Let's be real: dads get a bad rap in the media. We're talking Vanilla Ice's 'Ninja Rap' bad. More often than not, they're either pop lockin' Soul Train-style after learning they aren't the father, or they're selfish man-children who have more toys than brain cells.
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I think the worst thing you can do is blend in. Why would you ever want to blend in?
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The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.
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It is sweet to see how soon a spring becomes a rill, and a rill runs on into a rivulet, and a rivulet swells into a brook; and before one has time to say 'what are you at?' - before the first tree it ever spoke to is a dummy, or the first hill it ever ran down has turned blue, here we all have airs and graces, demands and assertions of a full grown river.
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Every great general and warrior from the beginning of time was high.
