Intimidation Quotes - Page 5

• I'm sorry I let everybody down, I'm fighting just to pay my bills. I don't have the stomach for this anymore... I don't have the desire for it. I feel bad for the people... I wish they could get their money back.

  Mike Tyson

  Sorry, Motivation, Fear

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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.

  Mike Tyson

  Motivation, Fear, Years

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• They're intimidating the networks and levying these fines, so the networks are not sure of what they can or can't do.

  Barry Levinson

  Intimidating, Fine, Not Sure

  "'Bedford' trimmed to skirt FCC". Associated Press, articles.latimes.com. March 25, 2006.

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• It's interesting that you put me in the league with those illustrious fighters [Muhammad Ali, Joe Louis, Jack Johnson], but I've proved since my career I've surpassed them as far my popularity. I'm the biggest fighter in the history of the sport. If you don't believe it, check the cash register.

  Mike Tyson

  Sports, Motivation, Fear

  "Tyson unplugged: On media, fans and his reputation". www.espn.com. May 5, 2002.

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• If those people survive, others will be emboldened. If they don't, others will be intimidated.

  Calvin Jillson

  People, Intimidated, Ifs

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• We have a system that allows us to manage a free and fair election, free of fraud, free of intimidation, and that's what we delivered on election day, and we're very very proud of it.

  Ken Blackwell

  Hype, Proud, Election

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• He was bested by a better fighter, ...I didn't feel like he was intimidated. If I made a mistake he would have punished me.

  Antonio Tarver

  Mistake, Fighter, Made

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• Mr. Speaker, in 1848, Karl Marx said, a progressive income tax is needed to transfer wealth and power to the state. Thus, Marx's Communist Manifesto had as its major economic tenet a progressive income tax. Think about it, 1848 Karl Marx, Communism.... I say it is time to replace the progressive income tax with a national retail sales tax, and it is time to abolish the IRS, my colleagues. I yield back all the rules, regulations, fear, and intimidation of our current system.

  James Traficant

  Thinking, America, Yield

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• The problem was to get judges who were not afraid to prosecute Saddam despite intimidation and threats.

  Hoshyar Zebari

  Judging, Problem, Threat

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• These books ain't window dressing. I think Machiavelli's the most sophisticated writer outside of Shakespeare. Way ahead of his time. Such a manipulative person. Everything he accomplished he did by kissin' ass.

  Mike Tyson

  Motivation, Fear, Book

  "Boxing: Tyson's complicated world". Interview with Paul Hayward, www.telegraph.co.uk. May 1, 2002.

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• When you have something in life that you want to accomplish greatly, you have to be willing to give up your happiness…I’ve lost all my sensitivity as far as being embarrassed, being shy, you just have to lose that.

  Mike Tyson

  Motivation, Fear, Giving Up

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• Whatever you want, especially when you’re striving to be the best in the world at something, there’ll always be disappointments, and you can’t be emotionally tied to them, cos’ they’ll break your spirit.

  Mike Tyson

  Motivation, Disappointment, Fear

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• Everyone says "I wish I was in your shoes...", the hundreds of people that wish they were in my shoes don't know the tenth of it. If they were in my shoes they would cry like a baby.

  Mike Tyson

  Baby, Motivation, Fear

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• In talking about the [Emmett Till murder trial], you have to repeat the atmosphere. This is Mississippi in 1955, with a long history of intimidation of witnesses and fear on the part of blacks to testify, in racial situations in particular. For someone like Mose Wright and others to testify against white defendants in a situation like this was historic.

  Charles Diggs

  Talking, White, Long

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• I just have this thing inside me that wants to eat and conquer. Maybe it's egotistical, but I have it in me. I don't want to be a tycoon. I just want to conquer people and their souls.

  Mike Tyson

  Fear, Motivation, People

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• I'm asking Muslims in the West a very basic question: Will we remain spiritually infantile, caving to cultural pressures to clam up and conform, or will we mature into full-fledged citizens, defending the very pluralism that allows us to be in this part of the world in the first place? My question for non-Muslims is equally basic: Will you succumb to the intimidation of being called "racists," or will you finally challenge us Muslims to take responsibility for our role in what ails Islam?

  Irshad Manji

  Responsibility, Challenges, Islam

  "Irshad Manji: The Trouble with Islam Today". www.pbs.org. August 18, 2006.

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• People have a right to protest peacefully, but there's absolutely no excuse for anyone to be conducting a campaign of intimidation that may be directed at anyone because of their religion or because of their background.

  Tim Soutphommasane

  People, Campaigns, May

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• The fact is that the two years or so after 9/11 were a terrible time in America – a time of political exploitation and intimidation, culminating in the deliberate misleading of the nation into the invasion of Iraq. It’s probably worth pointing out that I’m not saying anything now that I wasn’t saying in real time back then, when Bush had a sky-high approval rating and any criticism was denounced as treason. And there’s nothing I’ve done in my life of which I’m more proud.

  Paul Krugman

  Real, Approval Rating, Years

  "More About the 9/11 Anniversary". krugman.blogs.nytimes.com. September 12, 2011.

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• My father's songs don't intimidate me; my father's songs are my songs. My songs are his songs. There's no intimidation.

  Ziggy Marley

  Song, Father, Intimidating

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The 'terrorist' behavior of petitioners is remarkably similar to the conspiracy of violence and intimidation carried out by the Ku Klux Klan.

  Dawn Johnsen

  Ku Klux Klan, Violence, Conspiracy

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• There certainly are situations where I feel not empowered or uninspired. Particularly when the person's agenda is to intimidate through abusing their position or their authority. When I am present and in a nonreactive state, then I can become like snake and slide through their "intimidation net" back into the creative plane. When I am in a reactive state, I usually regret responding, because usually all that happens is that the intimidator feels righteously vindicated.

  Tori Amos

  Regret, Snakes, Creative

  "Tori Amos Interview by Maranda Pleasant". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I would say that, unfortunately, the word liberal has been redefined over the last 30 years as if it is a bad thing. But liberalism is a great American philosophy. Being a liberal is one of the best things you can be. I don't think they get a fair shake at all in the conservative mainstream media. So maybe there's some intimidation there.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Philosophy, Thinking, Media

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• For the longest time, I never thought I was intimidating to guys, but I'm kind of finding out that maybe there is some tiny thread of intimidation.

  Beverley Mitchell

  Guy, Tiny, Kind

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• I was just an infant when [Fannie Lou] Hamer spoke - barley even awake in the world. But here she was, pressing the Democratic Party to refuse to recognize the all-white Mississippi delegation, because obviously there was no way Mississippi could have an all-white delegation. Black people had been kept from registering through violence and intimidation. She had experienced that violence herself and was there to speak about it and to insist the delegation of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party be recognized instead.

  Leah D. Daughtry

  Party, White, People

  Source: www.elle.com

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• We like the idea of a guy who gets away with it ("it" in this case being a variety of things: murder, robbery, general mayhem, adultery, screwing over the government, basic intimidation and thuggery, etc.). It's a very American ideal - the freedom to break the law.

  Tod Goldberg

  Government, Law, Ideas

  Source: therumpus.net

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