Mike Tyson Quotes
For what I get paid to get into the ring, I owe it to my fans to uphold the institution of sportsmanship.
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I love shopping, but I can't go out. I love going to restaurants and eating out with friends.
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What you want to do is you want to own as little sort of hard infrastructure as possible, and your real value is your name and how you build that up.
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Rey is so strong. She's cool and smart and she can look after herself. Young girls can look at her and know that they can wear trousers if they want to. That they don't have to show off their bodies.
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God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
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When I was starting out, I always wanted to be able to do everything - comedy and drama and action, and everything in between. Film is so diverse, and it's fun to be able to take advantage of all of it.
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I enjoy science, and I'm a very curious person. I always want to know the reason behind everything, big or small.
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Never follow somebody else's path; it doesn't work the same way twice for anyone... the path follows you and rolls up behind you as you walk, forcing the next person to find their own way.
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The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
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It's not a real adventure when you have to pay for it.
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I think at places like 'Slate' or the magazine where I work, there was a really poor record of hiring African-American writers. It was really that simple. And I think with the proliferation of the Internet and Internet media, it has been a little harder to maintain that gatekeeper position.
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If I make a fool of myself, who cares? I'm not frightened by anyone's perception of me.
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I quit drinking, and I figure if I go to ten Yankee games this year without drinking I'll save $32,000.
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If a dog happens to catch a rabbit or another animal, it can very easily remove the hide. If a cat catches a squirrel, they have no trouble with that. But if a person does that, they will work all day and all night to get the skin off of an animal, because they don't have long canine teeth anymore.
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To be a successful father... there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years.
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The moon... is a mass, akin to the mass of the earth, attracts the waters by a magnetic force, not because they are liquid, but because they possess earthy substance, and so share in the movements of a heavy body.
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Practically, I am interested in television because it keeps me home and it's fast, and I exist in independent films mostly, and you don't get paid for those, or you don't get paid enough.
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Writers sometimes are paid a great deal of money, but much more frequently they're not paid or are paid only a little bit.
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There is nothing more marvelous than doing something you love to do and getting paid for it. It ceases to become work, money, and effort; and it becomes fun, your expression of the joy of life.
