Mike Tyson Quotes

I may have smoked too much weed, but I wasn't taking drugs or anything.

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• The Guardian's 'Word of Mouth' blog bridges the gap between blogging and serious food journalism.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Food
  • Serious
  • Journalism

• Most of the dramatism in Wagner comes from a very close link between the music and the language of the text. So much of the expressivity of Wagner's music dramas comes from the singers' capacity to play with the sound of the language. This kind of thing you can do very well in concert performance.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Music
  • Language
  • Performance

• What does that suggest when a compound this simple plays such an important role? To me it suggests that nitric oxide is one of the most primitive elements of cellular signaling, that it goes way back into evolution.

  

  Ferid Murad
  • Important
  • Simple
  • Evolution

• When we hate our enemies, we are giving them power over us: power over our sleep, our appetites, our blood pressure, our health, and our happiness.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Power
  • Giving
  • Hate

• The reason the future feels odd is because of its unpredictability. If the future didn't feel weirdly unexpected, then something would be wrong.

  

  Douglas Coupland
  • Future

• In the end, for me, music is such an internal thing that to let the outside world influence would be against my modus operandi.

  

  Kevin Parker Tame Impala
  • World
  • Music

• I've been involved in mixed martial arts since 1997 when I first started working for the UFC.

  

  Joe Rogan

• I was upset with Delbert, because there he was going again and pushing me out in front, without asking me.

  

  Cheryl Lynn

• You must write for children in the same way as you do for adults, only better.

  

  Maxim Gorky
  • Children

• Minus Point:

  

  Preity Zinta

• From the dawn of the day to the dusk he toiled, Shaping fanciful playthings, with tireless hands, - Useless trumpery toys; and, with vaulting heart, Gave them unto all peoples, who mocked at him, Trampled on them, and soiled them, and went their way.

  

  James Branch Cabell
  • Heart

• I have never been insecure, ever, about how I look, about what I want to do with myself. My mum told me to only ever do things for myself, not for others.

  

  Adele
  • Myself
  • Things
  • Insecure

• For did my dreams come true when I looked at you. And maybe too, if you would believe, you too might be overjoyed, over loved, over me.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • Believe
  • True
  • Dreams

• Live with a man forty years. Share his house, his meals, speak on every subject. Then tie him up and hold him over the volcano's edge, and on that day, you will finally meet the man.

  

  Xiang Yu
  • Up
  • Men
  • Live

• People want to know everyone for a lot of different reasons. It doesn't have to be anything as big as an Oscar nomination. It could be a brand new job. People see their opportunity. And, when you're winning, everyone loves a winner.

  

  Gabourey Sidibe
  • People
  • Different
  • Job

• In our own case, we don't consider the loss of a monastery or a monument the end of our entire way of life. If one monastery is destroyed, sometimes it happens.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Life

• You gotta take care of the people that are part of the foundation. If you don't, it crumbles.

  

  Jack Scalia
  • People
  • Care
  • Foundation

• I think we all need to be looking to the better angels of our own selves. We don't need to be looking for great people so much as becoming great people.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • People
  • Great
  • I Think

• At times, I've been so absolutely terrified of what I was about to do, whether it was public speaking or performance. Whatever it was, sometimes it had me really, really shaking in my shoes, and I decided that I was going to do it no matter what. And, of course, the critic is there, and afterwards, there's this, "Was it good enough? Was it really all I wanted to say?"

  

  Annie Lennox Eurythmics
  • Enough
  • Performance
  • Terrified

• If I won a few billion in the lottery, I would create an institute where people who would like to die would come spend a weekend, a week, or a month in pleasure, under drugs perhaps, in order to disappear afterward, as if erased.

  

  Michel Foucault
  • Weekend
  • Drugs
  • Lottery

• I may have smoked too much weed, but I wasn't taking drugs or anything.

  

  Mike Tyson
  • Drugs
  • Weed
  • Smoked