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Mike Tyson
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: June 30
Actor
Autobiographer
Boxer
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Professional Boxer
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Brooklyn
New York
Michael Gerard Tyson
Iron Mike
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Sometimes they laugh at things I don't think are funny, but I believe if they're laughing at me, it's a good show.
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My power is discombobulatingly devastating. It's ludricrous these mortals even attempt to enter my realm.
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My career has been over since 1990.
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I can talk about humility, but I'm not humble. I mean, if you say, I'm humble, you've just contradicted yourself. But I'm trying to be, man, I'm trying so hard.
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I guess I'll fade off into bolivian
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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 have to be that gentleman [baddest man on the planet] anymore. Now I have to be this guy. And in order to be this guy, I have to be smiling, I have to be gregarious, I have to be entertaining, and I have to be friendly. This is what my career needs now. I've adapted. But 20 years from now, I may need a different persona.
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This white woman came up to me, and I'm thinking, WOW. When I was a kid, she would have been robbed and raped and left for dead. This is a real strange scenario, and I just wanted to cry. I'm like, Who am I? Where's my heritage?
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I ain't the same person I was when I bit that guy's ear off.
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I did my time for the rape. I paid my money to Las Vegas. I paid my dues.
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Whatever my situation, I'm a strong disciplinarian I can do what I hate to do but do it like I love it.
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We're all going to be tested. The dark energy is going to knock on all of our doors.
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I'm a man. I lived it and I'm not afraid to die but when I die I'm going to paradise and I'm not worried.
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I like entertaining people. I like being on stage. I like being in the life. This is what I do. This is the only thing I know how to do besides rob people and fight. Even when I was robbing people, I was entertaining them. But that's just what I love doing.
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