Mike Quotes - Page 13

• 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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• Mike Tyson, what can I say about you that hasn’t already been the title of a Richard Pryor album?

  Anthony Jeselnik

  Titles, Albums, Tyson

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• When I was little it was a great time for film-making, with stuff like Mike Nichols' 'Silkwood.' The films you see in that pre-secondary-school stage stay with you in a very particular way.

  Saffron Burrows

  School, Littles, Stuff

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• I got that nickname my first spring training camp with the Expos in 1974. Tim Foli, Ken Singleton and Mike Jorgensen started calling me 'Kid' because I was trying to win every sprint. I was trying to hit every pitch out of the park.

  Gary Carter

  Spring, Kids, Winning

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• I always say the best applause you can get is when you walk from backstage up to your microphone at a concert. It's also nice to walk up to the mike at an awards show, and that applause is great, too, but the best is when your fans are cheering for you.

  Dierks Bentley

  Cheer, Nice, Awards

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• To the extreme I rock a mike like a vandal.

  Vanilla Ice

  Rocks, Controversy, Extremes

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• I like playing the contrasting roles. It what inspires me to act. If I look back on my career I am happy that I have gotten to play a wide variety of different roles, from Mike Dexter, to Van Ray in Fast Lane, to Dr. Cullen to Coop.

  Peter Facinelli

  Play, Careers, Inspire

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Mike Leigh encourages you to choose a person that you know to base your character on. You write a whole list of people that you know and you go through that list in great depth with him. And then he chooses one of those people from your list.

  Jane Horrocks

  Writing, Character, People

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• And my first film was Carnal Knowledge, another amazing experience, largely because of Mike Nichols, who would tell me you can't do anything wrong because you're doing everything right.

  Carol Kane

  Firsts, Film, Carnal Knowledge

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• Mike Tyson was one of the most terrific athletes I've ever met.

  Don King

  Athlete, Mets, Tyson

  "Only in America!: An Interview with Don King". Interview with Greg Hanlon, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 17, 2009.

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• I'm not a fighter, but I would love to be a boxer because I love the courage and toughness. I mean, there can be nothing more terrifying than walking into an arena and looking at Mike Tyson in the ring.

  Mark McGrath

  Mean, Boxers, Arena

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

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• I find it ironic how New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg is so focused on such small issues as drink sizes, while ignoring the massive infrastructure challenges in New York - lousy roads, third-world airports, traffic jams, etc.

  Mark Skousen

  New York, Airports, Cities

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• The first band I saw were Mike Sheridan and The Nightriders, in their brown mohair suits, in 1966.

  Jeff Lynne

  Band, Saws, Firsts

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• I would like to wish the England squad every success. I would also very much like to extend those wishes to Martin Johnson, Brian Smith, Mike Ford, John Wells, Graham Rowntree and the rest of the England 2011 World Cup management team who have been fantastic and deserve people to know that.

  Jonny Wilkinson

  Team, Squad, People

  "Jonny Wilkinson announces his retirement from international rugby" by Paul Rees, www.theguardian.com. December 12, 2011.

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• The ultimate date for me would be with someone fantastic, fun and great - and we'd go to the Lennox Lewis/Mike Tyson fight.

  Meg Ryan

  Fun, Fighting, Would Be

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• Mike Topp is a disablingly funny writer--a miniaturist of nervous precisions, our supreme abridger of metropolitan startlement and inner fidgetry. He dazes and graces us.

  Gary Lutz

  Grace, Daze, Nervous

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• The funny thing was, you see, that Mike Fink didn't think of himself as a murderer. He thought of life as a contest, and dying was what happened to those who came out second best, but it wasn't the same as murder, it was a fair fight.

  Orson Scott Card

  Fighting, Thinking, Funny Things

  Orson Scott Card (2009). “Red Prophet: The Tales of Alvin Maker”, p.235, Macmillan

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• He seems like a nice charming guy. [Mike Huckabee] doesn't believe in evolution and has some nutty views about what it is we should do about ending violence in our inner city—we should make sure all of our young people are armed. Republicans scare me.

  Elizabeth Edwards

  Nice, Believe, Views

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• When I'm on stage, I'm not me playing me. I'm somebody else doing me. I could never go on stage and be like, "Hey, I'm Mike Tyson. My mother and father was in the sex industry." That's the politically correct way to say it, but I would really say, "My mother and father were pimps and whores. This is my life." I could never do that as Mike Tyson. Because I'd feel sorry for myself. But if I could be objective about it and be somebody else, portraying Mike Tyson, saying this story, then it's easy sailing.

  Mike Tyson

  Mother, Sex, Sorry

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I could beat my mike stand into the stage, but I was still in pain. Maybe fans liked it, but sometimes people forget you're a person and they're more into the entertainment value. It's taken a long time to turn that around and give a strong show without it being a kamikaze show.

  Axl Rose

  Strong, Pain, Taken

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• I think my broadcast partner Mike Gorman said it best. He said there's a generation of fans who know me as a player and there's a generation of fans who know me as a coach and now there's a generation of fans who think I'm Shrek!

  Tom Heinsohn

  Thinking, Player, Fans

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• Not to make him blush, but any story illustrated by Mike Mignola does things that prose alone cant accomplish. The illustrations create mood and atmosphere, drawing the reader more deeply into the story than words could do on their own.

  Christopher Golden

  Illustration, Drawing, Atmosphere

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• When I was a little kid I used to go on the playground and say: today I will shoot like Bird, pass like Magic, jump like Mike, be quick like Zeke. I am thankful to them, since without seeing them do things they did, I wouldn't be in the NBA.

  Allen Iverson

  Basketball, Kids, Nba

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• I was the kind of entrepreneur that never really felt I made it. When Mike Olefield's "Tubular Bells" [Virgin Records' first release] sold 8 or 10 million copies, I suppose, at age 19, I could've possibly retired on the money. Instead, I immediately pushed the boat and took that risk again.

  Richard Branson

  Entrepreneur, Risk, Age

  "Richard Branson on Being Richard Branson". Interview with Rod Kurtz, www.entrepreneur.com. December 17, 2012.

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• Mike Huckabee said he's the only person who has fought the Clinton political machine and won. As opposed to Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders, who's the only person who fought a fax machine and lost.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Fax Machines, Political, Clinton

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