Mike Tyson Quotes
This is my career. I have children to raise. I have to retaliate. Evander Holyfield butted me. Look at me. My kids will be scared of me.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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Fashion is very tough, and we shouldn't forget that before designers were money-makers, they were artists.
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I believe in the free enterprise system.
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I'm not the type of person that is forced.
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I don't think any actor can be satisfied. I am still in the learning phase and hope I am always in the learning frame of mind in acting or in anything else that I do. That's what makes life interesting and worth living.
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I love to cook a meal for the so-called holidays. You always need the turkey. I like making a good BBQ brisket as well.
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I think that any sort of fantasy or sci fi that is grounded in something that could ostensibly be real - 'Jurassic Park' being my favorite example - is that much more prescient because it means that much more. Maybe one day, what if?
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Floyd Mayweather is in the sport to give great performances.
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A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
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I've achieved more than some people do in a lifetime, but it doesn't mean I've done it all.
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You only mature when you face problems you can't deal with.
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When I'm on stage, it's like a different world ... me connecting with the audience. It's a surreal experience.
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Forty percent of my portfolio is in the U.S. In the rest of the world, most of the places I invest in or invested in are Brazil, Russia, Germany with a little bit of Turkey, China, India, France and Israel sprinkled in there.
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Everyone needs help when they try something new.
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The falsification of scientific data or analysis is always a serious matter.
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Failing to engage in conflict is a terrible decision, one that puts our temporary comfort and the avoidance of discomfort ahead of the ultimate goal of our organization.
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If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
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Dictionaries are always fun, but not always reassuring.
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I have a very extreme state of mind. Things are very black or very white.
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I detest the idea that love between two persons can lead to salvation. All my life I have fought against this oppressive type of relationship. Instead, I believe in searching for a kind of love that somehow involves all of humanity.
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I realized when I was 23 that I had never really tried anything.
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The difference between sentiment and being sentimental is the following: Sentiment is when a driver swerves out of the way to avoid hitting a rabbit on the road. Being sentimental is when the same driver, when swerving away from the rabbit, hits a pedestrian.
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Music - which I could never listen to while writing before I had children - became essential to my process.
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This is my career. I have children to raise. I have to retaliate. Evander Holyfield butted me. Look at me. My kids will be scared of me.
