Mike Tyson Quotes

How dare these boxers challenge me with their primitive skills? It makes me angry.

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• Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a writer whose skill is improved by a deadline: the more time he has, the worse he writes.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Time
  • Ideas
  • Skill

• Those are my favorite kind of parts to do, just being a goofball and seeing how far you can go with something until you're just way out of line.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • You
  • Kind
  • Seeing

• I don't really think about what's 'age appropriate' for my audience because I think they can handle quite a bit, but I do try to think about what's honest and true to my characters who have grown up in situations where they've been taught to handle these things very carefully and that they're very powerful.

  

  Veronica Roth
  • Up
  • True
  • Age

• Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Man
  • Sound
  • Wine

• Knowing constitutional law helps one at the opera. The trial in 'Billy Budd,' as example, invokes the fugitive slave clause of the U.S. Constitution.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Law
  • Constitution
  • Slave

• I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Years
  • Old
  • Two

• Being on Broadway and getting a Tony nomination - this has been an incredible ride, from rather humble beginnings.

  

  Kate Fleetwood
  • Humble
  • Ride
  • Beginnings

• As life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Life
  • Literature
  • More

• China is a country, still, of great contrast. While hundreds of millions of people are part of the middle class and yearn for things made in America - American brands, movies, music - there are other hundreds of millions of people throughout China who are living on the equivalent of one U.S. dollar a day.

  

  Gary Locke
  • People
  • Great
  • Music

• Hits and flops are overrated.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Hits
  • Overrated
  • Flops

• I know my fans want me on the screen. But I think hero-worship should not be allowed to corrupt the plot and narrative of a film.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Film
  • Hero
  • Fans

• Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.

  

  Daniel Dennett
  • People
  • Tradition
  • Direction

• When you're on set, you have to perform and look the part.

  

  Madhur Mittal
  • You
  • Look
  • Perform

• You live these three months in this reality, in this dark reality. You don't want to do those films every year because they're taxing. I started smoking a lot of cigarettes.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Live
  • Reality
  • Dark

• I was doing a tour of the 'Batman' live stage production, and I challenged the cast to join me to run. One time, we were running in Switzerland just before Christmas, and it was heavy snow. Another time, we were running down the Seine in Paris on Christmas Day, and we all had Santa hats on.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Time
  • Live
  • Running

• Poets are seen as the caretakers of language, so working with words no matter what the form is what we do.

  

  Yusef Komunyakaa
  • Words
  • Language
  • Matter

• An enlarged global public society, with its many dissenting and corrective voices, can quickly call the bluff of lavishly credentialled and smug intellectual elites.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Society
  • Intellectual
  • Call

• Among those who are satisfactory in this respect it is desirable to have represented as great a diversity of intellectual tradition, social milieu and personal character as possible.

  

  Talcott Parsons
  • Great
  • Character
  • Respect

• When people have an inner sense of confidence, they're more beautiful.

  

  Amy Carlson
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Confidence

• Even in the most peaceful communities, an appetite for violence shows up in dreams, fantasies, sports, play, literature, movies and television. And, so long as we don't transform into angels, violence and the threat of violence - as in punishment and deterrence - is needed to rein in our worst instincts.

  

  Paul Bloom
  • Up
  • Long
  • Violence

• The loathing of mankind is a force that surprises and overwhelms one, fed by hundreds of springs concealed his subconsciousness. One only detects its presence after having long entertained it unawares.

  

  Georg Brandes
  • Long

• It's like an atomic bomb was dropped there, ... All that's there is rubble.

  

  Don Gibson
  • Bomb
  • Rubble

• My entire life, socially, was all around the Maggie era. That was the great challenge as a Sex Pistol was how to deal with Margaret Thatcher. I think we did rather good.

  

  John Joseph Lydon
  • Life
  • Good
  • Great

• How dare these boxers challenge me with their primitive skills? It makes me angry.

  

  Mike Tyson
  • Challenge
  • Angry
  • Skills