These books ain’t window dressing. I think Machiavelli’s the most sophisticated writer outside of Shakespeare. Way ahead of his time. Such a manipulative person. Everything he accomplished he did by kissin’ ass.
MIKE TYSONI’m just like you. I enjoy the forbidden fruits in life, too.
More Mike Tyson Quotes
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Destroy or be destroyed! I just love that way of life!
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I’m addicted to perfection. Problem with my life is I was always also addicted to chaos. Perfect chaos.
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There’s nothing to fear but fear itself. It’s an illusion of fear. Fear is an illusion. If you gonna die, you gonna die anyway; it’s not something to fear, fear is not gonna help.
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You never lose until you actually give up.
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It’s good to know how to read, but it’s dangerous to know how to read and not how to interpret what you’re reading.
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Confidence breeds success & success breeds confidence, Confidence applied properly surpasses genius.
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There’s no future in our past. Just experience. We want to return to it, but we don’t want to close the door on it either.
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Everybody you fight is not your enemy and everybody who helps you is not your friend.
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I’m a bad guy. But if I was a good guy, nobody would want to pay to see me fight.
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In order for me to achieve… I had to regard myself greater than what I was. In other words I had to fake it until I make it.
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You stand your ground and you perform your art. That’s what the artist does. The artist is about perfection.
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This white woman came up to me, and I’m thinking, WOW. When I was a kid, she would have been robbed and raped and left for dead. This is a real strange scenario, and I just wanted to cry. I’m like, “Who am I? Where’s my heritage?
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We all have to control our feelings. That’s the thing that separates us from animals.
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My nature is to get instant gratification. On stage, I can feel everybody’s anticipation. I know what they want, I know what I’m going to give them, I know when I’m going to give it to them, I know when they want it.
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I’m just like you. I enjoy the forbidden fruits in life, too.
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