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Integrity, number one. Even in business that's predicated on lies I refuse to become part of the lies that is all-consuming.

Don King

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Don King
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: August 20
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Cleveland
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You go for the quality of the performance, not the longevity of it.
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They went down the list of every known charge conceivable to man - rackeering, skimming, kickback, ticket scalping. fixing fights, preordaining fights, vitaiting officials, corrupting judges, all the way down to laundering money. Everything but the Lindbergh baby.
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I am a product of a rat and roach infested black ghetto. It is easy for me to rationalize my dealings as a numbers man. I'll defend men today who are involved in it.
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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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