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Most writers, in my opinion, are dysfunctional derelicts.

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Mike Tyson
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: June 30
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Michael Gerard Tyson
Iron Mike
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To some people the ego is evil. It gives you so much. It gives you everything you want. But it takes back too much in return. It gives you everything: money, riches, women, glamour, everything you want. But in return it takes back so much, and you're soulless. That's its goal. The ego's goal is to leave you soulless.
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I'm a historian, and that freaks me out.
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Every punch was thrown with bad intentions.
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King has big offices, houses, and he pays his fighters a lot of money. An, because he's black, the FBI figures he must be doing something crooked.
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No one who isn't an extremist can understand the mind of an extremist.
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Nietzsche's my favorite. He's just insane.
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Anyone with a grain of sense would know that if I punched my wife I would rip her head off. It's all lies. I have never laid a finger on her.
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I'm just a sucker even talking to you guys. I should be ready to rip your heads off your necks. But it's just not the right thing to do
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Destroy or be destroyed! I just love that way of life!
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The drug dealers, they sympathize with me. They see me as some sort of pathetic character.
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I was in handcuffs. I was under arrest. I remember there was this old lady looking at me, and I could tell she felt real sorry for me, and she did'nt know but all I wanted to do was take her purse.
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Some people are faster than others I'm just figuring it out later, that's all. I'm getting smart too late and old too soon.
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Every win, regardless a good or bad one, gives you more confidence.
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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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It's the emotional punches that you can't see that are just overwhelmingly devastating to your heart - your moral fiber.
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I'm a bad guy. But if I was a good guy, nobody would want to pay to see me fight.
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I hate to cry and I hate to sound like sour grapes, but no one ever listens to me. No one ever hears what I have to say.
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Treat the world the way you want to be treated.
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I can quit boxing now and practically go into any kind of business and I'll be successful just as well as I was in boxing.
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I'm scared every time I go into the ring, but it's how you handle it. What you have to do is plant your feet, bite down on your mouthpiece and say, 'Let's go.'
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