Mike Tyson Quotes
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I read part of it all the way through.
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I don't need to be motivated by anybody. Never have.
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I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.
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You know, I'm an African-American quarterback. That may scare a lot of people because they – they haven't seen nothing that they can compare me to.
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I'm writing what comes into my head, or through me, or from somewhere else, and it is the most extraordinary, exciting thing. I love it, and I'm very greedy, and I really enjoy it!
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I firmly believe that any good journalist must essentially be temperamentally an outsider. I don't think full sense of belonging and security is conducive to creativity.
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I have written a lot about the fine arts, but I'd never written about the literary arts, and so on some level Dante really, you know, spoke to me, as new ground but also familiar ground.
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I have never spoken to Eminem. I've never even spoken to him once.
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I am a reluctant celebrity, in some ways.
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Make the wise man within you your living ideal.
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The happiness of one's own heart alone cannot satisfy the soul; one must try to include, as necessary to one's own happiness, the happiness of others.
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I don't categorize food as bad or a guilty pleasure.
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I can't deal with someone flashy. That's so not me.
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If we come to the conclusion after 90 days that the synergies are big enough to justify the efforts, then we can go to the second step, which consists of saying: what would be the best organization and conditions - including shareholdings - in order to make sure the synergies happen.
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I gratefully look forward to oblivion, but I must be sure of it.
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Working on 'Girls' opened up a lot of opportunity for me. It's like a dream job. It's a dream.
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I constantly work at maintaining balance. For me, my family comes first. If my family is taken care of, then everything else usually falls into place.
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I think race has been a burden for black Americans. Being Muslim has also been a challenge because so many people do not understand Islam.
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One of the joys of teaching with the anthology is to watch the excitement grow as students, who may think the past dull and irrelevant, find how fresh and new and powerful are the kinds of writings that are hundreds of years old.
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A strategic use of black culture could help generate a more efficient use of American democracy,and democracy more effectively practiced could then produce a genuinely spiritual nation of people.
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I had a massive amount of self-belief when I did stand-up.
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I don't care how someone lives or how good their spoken English is. I do all of my interviews on Skype text chat - all that matters is their work.
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If we actually supported these gay artists and pumped money behind them the same way they pump money behind these divas, a conversation of homophobia in hip hop wouldn't be. Because I would have the money and the revenue coming in. It's not about homophobia or who's going to push back. It's all about who's supporting you and where there's money from.
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One day some guy is going to get a billion-dollar fight.
