Mike Tyson Quotes

When you're a great finisher, you'll become popular. Joe Louis was a great finisher.

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• It lies in human nature that where you experience your first laughs, you also remember the age kindly.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Experience
  • Remember
  • Nature

• I feel like my story would've been different had I had a chance to play with Bron when I was 18. I've thought about it countless times.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • Different
  • Thought
  • Chance

• When I was nine years old, my family lost our home, and the six of us moved into my grandparents' converted garage.

  

  Becky G
  • Family
  • Home
  • Lost

• I think Obama is right when he talks about the rule of law as a cornerstone of what the United States should stand for. That can encompass our elected officials' adherence to law and our country's return to the Geneva Conventions.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Country
  • Think
  • Law

• Writing never comes easy. The difference between Page 2 and Page Nothing is the difference between life and death.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Death

• A woman is never sexier than when she is comfortable in her clothes.

  

  Vera Wang
  • She
  • Woman
  • Never

• As a working-class actor, leaving school with no qualifications, being a printer and then becoming an actor and then working with people who to a certain extent had had a leg up. I never had that advantage. It's less an artistic need to express myself and more a need to prove myself.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • People
  • Up
  • School

• If you're driving, and a cop is behind you, you automatically think they're going to pull you over, but cops have so much more going on than to think about pulling you over. The last thing a real cop wants to do is write a ticket. That's the truth.

  

  Manny Montana
  • Real
  • Truth
  • Think

• I used to play all the time. I would play football when it was light and read when it was dark.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Time
  • Light
  • Football

• There are other writers who try for subtle and minimalists effects, but I don't travel in that tribe.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Travel
  • Try
  • Tribe

• Especially with the predators, one of the things that gets these programs going on a local level is for our land management agencies to build partnerships with surrounding communities and landowners.

  

  Gale Norton
  • Management
  • Partnerships

• What's been happening in Iraq, what young Americans wearing flak jackets, helmets and flight suits have done is... created the circumstances under which Iraq can become our closest ally in that part of the world and still have a representative government. And that's going to be a very good thing considering what's going on in that neighborhood.

  

  Oliver North
  • World
  • Good
  • Done

• Being an actor does make you aware of your age.

  

  Natasha Little
  • Age
  • You
  • Actor

• Whatever you do needs to be sustainable over time, and taking the money in the short term and taking it in a bubble - like buying an Internet stock in 2000 - may not be sustainable.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Time
  • Money
  • May

• I played Miley Cyrus' grandma on 'Hannah Montana,' and the first time I was on, they said, 'We love having veterans like you on because she's like a little sponge, and she's really appreciative of all the veterans that are coming on the show, and we just love that you're teaching her.'

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Time
  • Teaching
  • Appreciative

• In theory, people would pick progression every time over being idle. But if you look at us as a culture, as a people, you would say that if you get up at five o'clock in the morning, eat your breakfast, go to work, make money, pay your bills, you're progressing, when you're still doing what's comfortable.

  

  Q-Tip
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• While watching him work on the set of the film based on my life - Patch Adams - I saw that whenever there was a stressful moment, Robin would tap into his improvisation style to lighten the mood of cast and crew.

  

  Patch Adams
  • Life
  • Work
  • Style

• As America's nuclear strategic monopoly faded, the United States sought to create advantages elsewhere, notably in the peaceful cooperation between the United States and communist China under Deng Xiaoping.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • America
  • China
  • Peaceful

• I'd say that if you had a strained relationship with your mom, for whatever reason, the best thing to do is be open with each other, talk it over, try and work it out somehow as opposed to just putting a wall up and pushing them away.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Up
  • Work
  • Relationship

• I'm glad if people can listen to some music and maybe fix some prejudices of their own, just by thinking.

  

  Nellie McKay
  • People
  • Music
  • Thinking

• I was introduced to country music around a campfire on a farm.

  

  Gavin DeGraw
  • Music
  • Country
  • Farm

• I really see low-fare carriers, quality low-fare carriers anyway, continuing to become more and more popular.

  

  David Neeleman
  • Quality
  • Popular

• Whether looking at pop music, hip-hop or R&B, it's rare to find an artist who hasn't been touched or affected by the power and soul of gospel music. In fact, many of today's popular artists such as Whitney Houston, John Legend, and Katy Perry started their careers in the church choir.

  

  Marvin Sapp
  • Music
  • Power
  • Soul

• When you're a great finisher, you'll become popular. Joe Louis was a great finisher.

  

  Mike Tyson
  • Popular
  • Finisher
  • Louis