Mike Tyson Quotes

When I was young, I thought I was a god. Now, I just basically work on staying humble. My priorities changed. Just to be able to try to change them - that was frightening to me.

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• Sometimes I'd like to play the bad guy and sometimes I'd like to die in a movie.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Bad
  • Movie
  • Guy

• Whatever you got you have to accentuate. I ran my female card up and down the ladder my whole career, because I was in a man's world. It was worked by women but owned by men. I was the only female owner in my field at that time.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• There are lots of different reasons to choose roles.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Different
  • Choose
  • Lots

• We don't ask the actor playing James Bond what his sexual preference is. So I don't know what it is, really, with trying to out actors who portray gay characters on television. But it is some sort of fascination in society.

  

  Jack Falahee
  • Trying
  • Society
  • Gay

• I hope that the opening of the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial will be a life-altering experience that inspires every American to rededicate themselves to the fulfillment of Dr. King's dream.

  

  Yvette Clarke
  • Life
  • Experience
  • American

• I am really precise about who I want to work with and, no matter the timeline, I push to get what I think would be cool.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • Work
  • Cool
  • Timeline

• I think slavery is the next thing to hell. If a person would send another into bondage, he would, it appears to me, be bad enough to send him into hell if he could.

  

  Harriet Tubman
  • Bad
  • Think
  • Me

• I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Political
  • Talk
  • Matters

• Well first of all you have to make the character strong so that people can follow that. And then hopefully that character can integrate with the background of the social situation that people can recognize.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • People
  • Character
  • Strong

• When you don't know what the band looks like, it puts the emphasis on thinking and taking the music and message more seriously.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Music
  • Thinking
  • Band

• All of the religions are looking after the poor. At least leave me alone to look after the rich. I am the rich man's guru.

  

  Rajneesh
  • Rich
  • Poor
  • Religions

• Animals play a big part in my life, on tour or at home.

  

  Aaron Carter
  • Life
  • Home
  • My Life

• Every now and then, when I think about it, I think, 'What would I even talk about onstage?' It's never been, 'I wonder if I'm funny. I wonder if I can come up with jokes.' It's more, 'What would it be like without the leather suit and the anger?'

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Up
  • Think
  • Funny

• I like the freedom of podcasting. With podcasting you can really mess around with the form and the format. You can do as much time as you like without having to pause for commercials.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Time
  • Freedom
  • You

• I don't care what people do. I don't care how people remember my albums. I do them for my own reasons.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • People
  • Remember
  • Care

• I always save a few special outfits for the final rounds of a tournament, because they put me in a more positive mindset and I then make better decisions.

  

  Camilo Villegas
  • Positive
  • Decisions
  • Mindset

• An entertainer should in his public performance keep himself out of any controversy, political or otherwise.

  

  Kate Smith
  • Political
  • Performance

• My dad was a congressman, and he taught me at a very early age, 'They voted for me, they view me as theirs, and I am.' Our family's phone in Memphis was always listed. It rang all day and all night.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • Family
  • Age
  • Night

• The precondition to freedom is security.

  

  Rand Beers
  • Freedom
  • Security

• One performs a very different act when reading a movie and when reading a novel. Your attention behaves differently.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Different
  • Movie
  • Attention

• If you were a successful upper-middle-class Negro girl in the 1950s and '60s, you were, in practice and imagination, a white Protestant upper middle-class girl. Young, good-looking white women were the most desirable creatures in the world. It was hard not to want to imitate them; it was highly toxic, too, as we would learn.

  

  Margo Jefferson
  • World
  • Good
  • Women

• When the Higher Man does something worthy of admiration, it is an evidence of his Mastership, not the object of it.

  

  Idries Shah
  • Evidence
  • Object
  • Mastership

• How-how can we make it against the whole world?

  

  Tabitha Suzuma
  • World

• When I was young, I thought I was a god. Now, I just basically work on staying humble. My priorities changed. Just to be able to try to change them - that was frightening to me.

  

  Mike Tyson
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  • Humble
  • Priorities