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It's good to know how to read, but it's dangerous to know how to read and not how to interpret what you're reading.

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Mike Tyson
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: June 30
Actor
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Boxer
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Professional Boxer
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Brooklyn
New York
Michael Gerard Tyson
Iron Mike
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I'm on the Zoloft to keep from killing y'all.
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Don't be surprised if I behave like a savage. I am a savage
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There are not many regrets that I have. There are a few things that I wish I'd changed in my life, but they are not so dramatic that I'd go out of my way to change them. But I go back and think about my life so far periodically in my head.
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These pigeons have been living with each other for 10 or 15 years, but when I throw feed down, they kill each other to get it, and it's the same with the fighters. We love and respect each other...but we need that money.
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People say 'Poor guy.' That insults me. I despise sympathy. So I screwed up. I made some mistakes. 'Poor guy,' like I'm some victim. There's nothing poor about me.
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My father was a pimp before he became a deacon or something. These people know how to handle women. I'm the worst guy in the world with women. They run circles around me.
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Being a champion opens lots of doors—I'd like to get a real estate license, maybe sell insurance.
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People look at me as some bruiser, but I want to entertain people. I want people to applaud. I want to be the cause of people being happy, their emotions changing, to tell me I did a good performance.
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Another thing that freaks me out is time. Time is like a book. You have a beginning, a middle and an end. It's just a cycle.
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I feel like sometimes that I was not meant for this society.
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I am the most ruthless, brutal champion ever. There is no one who can match me. I want your heart. I want to eat your children.
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Anger is my biggest enemy in life.
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I want your heart, I want to eat your children.
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You never lose until you actually give up.
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I'm a nut case, but that is what I believe.
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People love you when you're successful, but if you're not, who really cares about you?
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I don't want to be grotesque, but when you're 330 pounds, it's hard to wipe your a-. You know?
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I love to hit people. I love to.
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I'm doing what great artists before me did, like Judy Garland, Sammy Davis, Eddie Cantor. I'm doing what they were doing, not at their level yet, but one day I will be. I'm just happy to be in their company.
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My main objective is to be professional but to kill him.
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