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I'm a promoter of the people for the people and by the people and my magic lies in my people ties.

Don King

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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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Promoter
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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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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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When we started, it was based on lies. It's changing now. There are no secrets in the business. You've got to come with the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. It's becoming very confusing.
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It ain't about if he knocks a guy out. It's about how he knocks a guy out. It's the style, the improvisation.
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Forgiveness is a beautiful thing. That's why I forgive Reince Priebus, that little Greek rascal.
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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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Don't worry about appeasing the establishment. Don't acquiesce to an alleged power. Be with the people, not the establishment. The guy that's sitting next to you, that's who you got to beware. Judas was sitting right next to Jesus.
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I've whipped the Harvard graduate's ass. Nothing against Harvard - it's a hell of a school - but there I was, twenty five yards behind, wrapped in leg irons, and I beat him.
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I tell Donald Trump that the establishment will tell their lies. They will try to keep him down. I tell him, 'Now Mr. Trump, they're treating you like a black man.' I say, 'Mr. President, you know what it's like to be a black man. No matter what you say or do, you are guilty as hell.'
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You see, the problem with me is I'm so good even my friends think I'm doing something wrong. Flair and flamboyance is not illegal. It may be detestable, it may be offensive, but it's not illegal.
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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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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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America is supposed to be the richest and most powerful nation and we don't have health care for everybody.
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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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You must believe the unbelievable, snatch the possible out of the impossible.
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If a bullfrog had wings it wouldn't bump his behind every time he hopped.
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There's only one rule anyone connected with boxing must keep in mind - everything you here in boxing is a lie.
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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.
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I dare to be great. The man without imagination stands unhurt and hath no wings. This is my credo, this is my forte.
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You go for the quality of the performance, not the longevity of it.
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