"What was most important was the knowledge [aspect] of the fight. I learned this early on and just told myself to "upgrade my mind." That's just what I wanted to do my whole life."

-- Mike Tyson

#Fighting Quotes #Mind Quotes #Important Quotes

“The virtues which keep this world sweet and the faithfulness which keeps it steadfast are chiefly those of the average man. The danger of the two-talent man is that he will be content with mediocrity.”
“Everybody deserves a shot at playing sports. It shouldn't matter in the least if that person is gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender. Building community through healthy and inclusive activities should be one of the main focuses behind athletics, and that isn't possible if you exclude LGBT individuals, especially our youth.”
“I'm never drawing the object itself; I'm only drawing a depiction of the object - a kind of crystallized symbol of it.”

Source : Roy Lichtenstein, Jack Cowart, Katonah Museum of Art, Dixon Gallery and Gardens (2009). “Lichtenstein in process”
“The poet's expression of joy conceals his despair at not having found the reality of joy.”
“The company that employed me strived only to serve up the cheapest fare that the customer would tolerate, churn it out as fast as possible, and charge as much as they could get away with. If it were possible to do so, the company would sell what all businesses of its kind dream about selling, creating that which all of our efforts were tacitly supposed to achieve: the ultimate product -- Nothing. And for this product they would command the ultimate price -- Everything.”
“The United States doesn't do what it does in the world for altruistic reasons. Nobody set out to be the world's government.”
“If I believed in Hell, I'd definitely be going there.”

Source : Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. June 27, 2011.
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it without a sense of ironic futility.”

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