Mike Tyson Quotes
I try my best to learn from other people's mistakes. I have a lot of respect for people who can change.
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Sean Connery wasn't the Scottish James Bond and Daniel Craig wasn't the blue-eyed James Bond. So if I played him, I don't want to be called the black James Bond.
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My aunt is a newscaster in Lubbock, Texas, and she got a letter that said, 'Natalie Maines will be shot dead at their show in Dallas, Texas,' with the date of our concert. It was freaky to see that in writing.
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Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.
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I don't hurt or want for visibility, but people seem to forget pretty easily.
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In seventh and eighth grade, grammar and vocabulary were not my favorite subjects.
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I don't really know why I care so much. I just have something inside me that tells me that there is a problem, and I have got to do something about it. I think that is what I would call the God in me.
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When companies get big, they slow down. They're not as exciting. If you want to get something done, it takes a lot of time and a lot of meetings.
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I'm from New York, so I'm not a big driver.
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Women I admired growing up - Debra Winger, Diane Keaton, Meryl Streep - were all beautiful and thin, but not too thin. There are a lot of actresses who are unhealthy-skinny - much, much too skinny. You can't Pilates to that.
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Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.
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One of the banners I would put up in front of any American president and new administration is 'Do not overreact to your predecessors' policies.'
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If I had an ego as big as the Eiffel Tower, would I have won this many collective trophies? I know people like to talk about it. And O.K., I am not going to answer every story. But maybe I will let my collective trophies speak for themselves. I don't know many other footballers who have won as much. Do you?
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I've been too many places. I'm like the bad penny.
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I don't go into a fight mad. I go into a fight like it's my birthday. I love what I'm doing.
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I drink tons of water. It always sounds like the lamest thing, but there's a reason you keep hearing this over and over again. It really works.
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Baking is my pastime. I just love creating things. But it's not what I want to do for a living. Acting is what I want to do.
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There are millions of people who consume music illegally every month. Just getting them into a legal service will make the music industry way bigger than it's ever been before.
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In my state, over 17,000 households are going hungry on a regular basis.
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Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders.
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Social Security not only helps Americans enjoy a secure retirement, it has also kept millions of Americans out of poverty.
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I used to write travel essays, and I was struck by how the fact of writing about a place would change my relationship with it. I would make completely different choices, do things I wouldn't have normally, because I had to fill this narrative shape.
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I try my best to learn from other people's mistakes. I have a lot of respect for people who can change.
