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.
MIKE TYSONWhen 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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I’m gonna make sure you talk about me, and your grandkids and kids after that gonna know about me…your great grandkids will say “wow, wasn’t that a bizarre individual?”
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Discipline is doing what you hate to do, but nonetheless doing it like you love it.
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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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The one thing I know, everyone respects the true person and everyone’s not true with themselves.
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I always had a lot of responsibilities. I just didn’t take them. I just decided to take care of my responsibilities, live up to them. That’s a pretty interesting job. It’s harder than being heavyweight champion of the world.
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Sometimes, the people we invest the most time in disappoint us the most.
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When Jesus comes back, these crazy, greedy, capitalistic men are gonna kill him again.
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At one point, I thought life was about acquiring things. But as a I get older, life is totally about losing everything.
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The drug dealers, they sympathize with me. They see me as some sort of pathetic character.
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You never lose until you actually give up.
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What was most important was the knowledge [aspect] of the fight. I learned this early on and just told myself to “upgrade my mind.” That’s just what I wanted to do my whole life.
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I’m a historian, and that freaks me out.
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The mind is a real dangerous neighborhood to travel by ourselves.
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Every great general and warrior from the beginning of time was high.
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Yes, time flies. And where did it leave you? Old too soon, smart too late.
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