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You go for the quality of the performance, not the longevity of it.

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Don King
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: August 20
Actor
Boxing Promoter
Entrepreneur
Record Producer
Cleveland
Ohio
Donald King
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You sign an agreement you make a contract, you live up to it. You never get what you deserve. You get what you negotiate. You got a right to say yay or nay.
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I am so happy to be at Barclays Center. When I saw Brett Yormark, I thought to myself that he and his brother Michael are doing an amazing job.
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When you lose the title, that doesn't mean you lose the contract to what you had. Just like when you win the title, it doesn't mean you win brains, PhDs and MAs.
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I'll pay them right after it snows in Panama. Let Eleta pay them if he feels so strongly about it.
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Man O' War was a great racehorse, but if I put a extra 20 pounds on him they would say I was cruel to the animal. So don't ask me to do that to Chavez.
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Machiavelli taught me it was better to be feared than loved. Because if you are loved they sense you might be weak. I am a man of the people and help them but it is important to do so through strength.
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America is supposed to be the richest and most powerful nation and we don't have health care for everybody.
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If you cast your bread upon the water and you have faith, you'll get back cash. If you don't have faith, you'll get soggy bread.
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Muhammad Ali - he was a magnificent fighter and he was an icon... Every head must bow, every knee must bend, every tongue must confess, thou art the greatest, the greatest of all time, Muhammad, Muhammad Ali.
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