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"He was always saying, 'I wonder what Paul is doing.' When John and I were together, and this is about a week or two before our relationship ended, I remember him saying, 'Do you think I should write with Paul again?' I said, 'Absolutely. You should because you want to. The two of you as solo performers are good, but together you can't be beaten."
"I don't think I would change really anything about rap. Rap don't have no limits to it, and I like it like that."
"Do not think that saintliness comes from occupation; it depends rather on what one is. The kind of work we do does not make us holy, but we may make it holy."
"I think the most liberating thing I did early on was to free myself from any concern with my looks as they pertained to my work."
"They think because I'm small, they can do what they want to do to me. But I'm not weak. If I lower my shoulder and they lower they're shoulder, they're going to go down."
"I think in a world where everyone wants to categorize and compartmentalize and rationalize, it's OK to be different."
"It doesn’t faze me what anyone says about me. It doesn’t matter what anyone says about me. I’m a totally different entity to what other people think. Michael and Tyson are two different people. I’m Tyson here."
"Women can always think as much as they like, an' they could get up on a platform an' talk till they bust, as long as they didn't want the world to be made no better, an' they wouldn't be thought unwomanly. It's soon as a woman wants any practical good done that she is considered a unwomanly creature."
"If the culture is so all pervasive that you can’t think outside of it, how are you making genuine choices?"
"My contention is that as long as you have other faculties-the emotional, psychological, intuitive faculties-you haven't lost yourself or even diminished yourself. Don't be ashamed when you're physically limited or dysfunctional; don't think that you're any less because of your condition. In fact, I feel I am even more myself than I was before I got this illness because I have been able to transcend many of the psychological and emotional limitations I had before I developed ALS."
"We allow ourselves to be blown by the winds because we do know what we want: our hearts know it, even if our thoughts are sometimes slow to follow- but in the end they do catch up with our hearts and then we think we have made a decision"
"I wasn't attractive when I was growing up, and I don't think I am now."
"There is no Them, there is only Us. Some of Us think this or some of Us think that, but we're all Us."
"Here's what I think the truth is: We are all addicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial, about to face cold turkey."
"That is my principal objection to life, I think: It's too easy, when alive, to make perfectly horrible mistakes."
"I think it matters almost infinitely that we practice one of the authentic religions. But if you mean does it make any difference which. The answer is no, as long as each is followed with equal intensity, sincerity, dedication."
"Oh you men who think or say that I am malevolent, stubborn, or misanthropic, how greatly do you wrong me. You do not know the secret cause which makes me seem that way to you. Oh how harshly was I flung back by the doubly sad experience of my bad hearing."
"You knew all along that your sanctioned world was only half the world, and you tried to suppress the other half the same way the priests and teachers do. You won't succeed. No one succeeds in this once he has begun to think."
"If we want to find happiness, let's stop thinking about gratitude or ingratitude and give for the inner joy of giving."
"When we have a brilliant idea, instead of making others think it is ours, why not let them cook and stir the idea themselves."
