Mr. T Quotes

My mother raised me with God. We were poor financially, but we were rich spiritually.
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Financially God Mother Poor Raise Rich Spiritually
Really, you don’t lose until you stop trying.
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Lose Really Stop Try Until
It takes a smart man to play dumb.
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Dumb Man Play Smart Take
All I ever wanted out of my life was to buy my mother a house. By 1995, I have achieved all I wanted materially in life.
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Achieve All Buy Ever House Life Materially Mother Want
My momma didn’t clean up floors so I could be a thug… so I could wear my pants down.
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Clean Down Flor Momma Pant Should Thing Up Wear
I said I would never wear my gold again because it would be insensitive and disrespectful to all the people who died and lost everything in Katrina.
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Again All Die Disrespectful Everything Gold Incentive Lost never People Wear
If you gonna wear the mohawk, you stick with it. You don’t just be dibby-dabbing. You make up your mind.
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Dabbling Gonna Make Mind Mohawk Stock Wear
I try to work out my mind more these days. I try to eat right. I don’t drink, I don’t smoke, and I take the skin off chicken. But I’m not on no special diet. I like my steak and potatoes, ice cream, doughnuts.
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Chicken Day Diet Doughnut Drink Eat Icecream Mind More Off Out Potato Right Skin Smike Special Steak These Try Work
You’ll never have any trouble with Mr. T, I’m just a big, calm teddy bear kind of guy. Mr. T ain’t ashamed to cry.
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Any Ashamed Bear Big Cry Guy Have Just Kind never People Teddy Trouble
Whatever role I play is a positive role; it’s a strong role. Never negative.
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Positive Role Strong Whatever
To be a bodyguard is to be a kamikaze pilot. Dedicated.
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Bodyguard Dedicate Pilot
I was being trained because I wanted to be a preacher like my father. I wanted to talk about Moses; I wanted to talk about God.
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Father God Mose Preacher Talk Train Want
I’ve turned those steel chains into gold to symbolize the fact that I’m still a slave, only my price tag is higher.
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Change Fact Gold Higher Price Slave Steel Still Symbolize Tag Turn
I take a lot of pride in the work I do, because people pay to see me. They’ve got to get babysitters, park their car, get popcorn and candy. I’ve got to be conscious of that.
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Babysitter Candy Car Conscious Lot Park People Popcorn Pride See Take Work
I always was a Christian… whatsoever a man thinks in his heart is who he is.
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Always Christian Heart Man Religion Think Whatsoever
I’m a bold Christian, not a scaredy-cat Christian.
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Bold Cat Christian Religious Scaredy
Left ear, I wear four earrings. The four is symbolic of the four seasons, spring, winter, summer and fall, the four directions, north, east, south and west, the four gospel writers, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
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Ear Earring East Fall Four Four Direction Gospel Left North Session South Spring Summer Symbolic Wear West Winter Writer
When you give, it comes back to you.
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Back Give Some You
I’m not the same man I used to be, I’m not out hell-raising, stuff like that. I am a changed man.
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Change Hell Like Man Raise Same Stuff Use
My faith was tested like Job. That’s the message I try to tell other people: just because you believe in God, serve God, feed the hungry, clothe the naked, people gotta realize, it don’t mean things not gonna happen to you.
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Believe Cloth Faith Feed God Happen Hungry Job Like Make Message Naked Other People Realize Serve Tell Test
Football players, the brain and all that stuff, ooh-eee, that’s not good.
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All Brain Football Good Not Player Stuff
I’m tender on the inside.
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Inside On Tender
When my ancestors came from Africa, they were shackled by our neck, our wrists, and our ankles in steel chains.
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Ancestor Ankle Came Chain Country Neck Shackled Steel Wrist
I’m not really an actor, I’m a reactor; I’m a pitchman. That’s what I do best. Nobody can do it any better.
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Actor Better Nobody Pitchman Reactor Really
NBC had a show called ‘The Toughest Bouncer in America’ that I did. But I told them I didn’t like that term, ‘bouncer.’.
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Bouncer Call Country Lie Show Term Them Told Toughest
I would travel with a suitcase full of diamonds and take them from point A to point B.
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Courteous Diamond From Guy No Nonsense Point Suitcase Travel
I don’t worry. I don’t doubt. I’m daring. I’m a rebel.
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Dare Doubt Rebel Worry

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