Mike Tyson Quotes

Every punch was thrown with bad intentions.

Mike Tyson

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• When I was governor, I was looking for a way to unify our state. I realized music is about the only thing that unifies Tennessee.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • Music
  • Way
  • Looking

• We do not interfere in U.S. politics... and Europeans expect that America does not interfere in European politics.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • America
  • Politics
  • Expect

• I don't know that I'd call myself an optimist.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Know
  • Myself
  • Optimist

• I got a feeling about political correctness. I hate it. It causes us to lie silently instead of saying what we think.

  

  Hal Holbrook
  • Political
  • Feeling
  • Hate

• I think good radio often uses the techniques of fiction: characters, scenes, a big urgent emotional question. And as in the best fiction, tone counts for a lot. But a lot of effective and interesting radio is based on one character who reacts to the world.

  

  Ira Glass
  • World
  • Good
  • Character

• We will not rest until we see the suspects behind bars.

  

  Walid Jumblatt
  • Rest
  • See
  • Behind

• As long as I am acting, I will do only Telugu films. I want to take Telugu films to the world. Everyone should talk about our films.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • World
  • Acting
  • Films

• Teaching was my first job after leaving university. It was a challenge, but I enjoyed it. Some of the kids were disruptive, but I could deal with it because I was only 24 at the time, and my own school memories were still fresh.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Time
  • School
  • Job

• It's kind of my whole philosophy as an actor. I think that's what we're supposed to do is play a wide range of characters - or it's just what I like to do, I should say. I like to try to be as different as I can from one thing to the next.

  

  Garret Dillahunt
  • Different
  • Think
  • Kind

• Music is nothing separate from me. It is me. I can't retire from music any more than I can retire from my liver. You'd have to remove the music from me surgically - like you were taking out my appendix.

  

  Ray Charles
  • Music

• I had body insecurities when I was younger. I still do.

  

  Ariel Winter

• Listen, I think movies serve many different purposes, from those movies that are frivolous and just an entertainment, to movies that just go to exploring the complexities of the human soul. Everything is valid if it's done with honesty and dignity, and I actually do both of those types of movies in my career.

  

  Antonio Banderas
  • Different
  • Done
  • Soul

• I can be an incredibly fabulous person, and I don't have to be in the highest heels, the tallest wig, the skimpiest outfit. I can let other things speak for me now.

  

  James St. James

• No persons professing to be Christians should enter the marriage relation until the matter has been carefully and prayerfully considered from an elevated standpoint, to see if God can be glorified by the union.

  

  Ellen G. White
  • God
  • Marriage

• California is beautiful to look at, but you can't be a part of it like you can in Michigan.

  

  Jennifer Granholm
  • Beautiful
  • California

• Commemorations can stimulate debate, which will ultimately lead to a greater understanding of the events of our 'through-other' history and to shape a better future.

  

  Martin McGuinness
  • History
  • Future
  • Understanding

• I was raised with the notion that it was OK to ask questions, and it was OK to say, I'm not sure. I believe, but I'm not quite so certain about the resurrection.

  

  Peter Jennings
  • Believe

• I love scoring. Putting music to picture is a rewarding challenge and one that relies on interpretation of emotion - as in, what is the pivotal feeling in a scene and which character's point of view is driving it at any given moment?

  

  Liz Phair
  • Music
  • Character
  • Feeling

• What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: our life is the creation of our mind. If a man speaks or acts with an impure mind, suffering will follow him as the wheel of the cart follows the beast that draws the cart. If a man speaks or acts with a pure mind, joy follows him as his own shadow.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Joy
  • Suffering
  • Shadow

• You are fortunate if you have learned the difference between temporary defeat and failure, more fortunate still if you have learned the truth that the very seed of success is dormant in every defeat that you experience.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Experience
  • Truth
  • Success

• That's when it hit me. The site is more important than me.

  

  Harry Knowles
  • Site

• I trained as hard as I could, I ran as much as I could, I sparred hard, I did everything right. I did everything I could possibly do at the age when I could fight. You have to be realistic; you can't say, 'Oh, I am smarter now, older and I can punch harder.' You think you can, but you can't.

  

  George Michael Ward Jr.
  • Everything
  • Realistic
  • Trained

• He is thoughtful whose mind is directed by his will, whose mind fulfills his intentions, whose mind is under the control of his intention... It is not till a person has gained mastery over his mind, till he is above this activity, that he is a ruling power, a true person.

  

  Hazrat Inayat Khan
  • Mind
  • Control
  • Intentions

• Every punch was thrown with bad intentions.

  

  Mike Tyson
  • Intentions
  • Punch