I’m addicted to perfection. Problem with my life is I was always also addicted to chaos. Perfect chaos.
MIKE TYSONThe one thing I know, everyone respects the true person and everyone’s not true with themselves.
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Some people are faster than others; I’m just figuring it out later, that’s all. I’m getting smart too late and old too soon.
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You have to be a friend to yourself. You know, ’cause if you’re not a friend to yourself, you’re an enemy to yourself and if someone’s a friend of everybody they are an enemy to themselves.
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Every great general and warrior from the beginning of time was high.
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God lets everything happen for a reason. It’s all a learning process, and you have to go from one level to another.
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I’m a historian, and that freaks me out.
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It’s unnatural to fight somebody who has nothing against you and never did anything to you or to your family, who never stole anything from you. And now you’ve got to go and try to dismantle this guy.
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Discipline is doing what you hate to do, but nonetheless doing it like you love it.
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People say ‘Poor guy.’ That insults me. I despise sympathy. So I screwed up. I made some mistakes. ‘Poor guy,’ like I’m some victim. There’s nothing poor about me.
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I’m scared every time I go into the ring, but it’s how you handle it. What you have to do is plant your feet, bite down on your mouthpiece and say, ‘Let’s go.’
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The mind is a real dangerous neighborhood to travel by ourselves.
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When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap – people shouldn’t read that stuff.
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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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Hard times fall upon everybody. Whatever it is, we’re going to get out of it.
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When you have something in life that you want to accomplish greatly, you have to be willing to give up your happiness I’ve lost all my sensitivity as far as being embarrassed, being shy, you just have to lose that.
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What I’ve done in the past is history and what I’m gonna do in the future is a mystery.
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