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Mr. T

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God is on my side, and that's all I need. I get up in the morning, I pray to God. I don't pray to the president, the governor, the mayor, no black caucus, no this and that. I pray to God, and that's the end of it.
- Mr. T
Collection: Morning
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I try to work out my mind more these days. I try to eat right. I don't drink, I don't smoke, and I take the skin off chicken. But I'm not on no special diet. I like my steak and potatoes, ice cream, doughnuts.
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Collection: Diet
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If you can't read, the only thing you can do is enjoy the pictures, not the whole story. Reading is the key to knowledge. Knowledge is the key to understanding. So read on, young man! Read on, young lady!
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Collection: Knowledge
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I'll never have a wedding. I don't want to marry just to do what everybody else is doing.
- Mr. T
Collection: Wedding
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When I was old enough to change my name, I changed it to Mr. T so that the first word out of someone's mouth was 'Mister,' a sign of respect.
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Collection: Respect
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To the women and children, T stands for tender. To the bad guys and thugs, it stands for tough.
- Mr. T
Collection: Women
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I used to bodyguard for Muhammad Ali, Leon Spinks, Sugar Ray Leonard. I used to bodyguard a lot of diamond merchants; I would travel with a suitcase full of diamonds and take them from point A to point B. My reputation grew because I was a professional. I did my job, and I was courteous - a no-nonsense guy.
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Collection: Travel
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I'm a mama's boy because everything I do is with respect to my mother. I won't do a movie or a video that would bring disrespect to my mother.
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Collection: Respect
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My faith was tested like Job. That's the message I try to tell other people: just because you believe in God, serve God, feed the hungry, clothe the naked, people gotta realize, it don't mean things not gonna happen to you.
- Mr. T
Collection: Faith
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I want people to draw strength from me.
- Mr. T
Collection: Strength
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When I'm ready to fight, my opponent has a better chance of surviving a forest fire wearing gasoline drawers.
- Mr. T
Collection: Chance
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If people are cool, then they are not stressed. I pity the fool that don't be cool.
- Mr. T
Collection: Cool
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When I was growing up, my family was so poor we couldn't afford to pay attention.
- Mr. T
Collection: Family
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You pity the fool because you don't want to beat up a fool! You know, pity is between sorry and mercy. See, if you pity him, you know, you won't have to beat him up. So that's why I say fools, you gotta give another chance because they don't know no better. That's why I pity them!
- Mr. T
Collection: Chance
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You might not have the things you want, but if you check carefully, you got all you need.
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My momma didn't clean up floors so I could be a thug... so I could wear my pants down.
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I don't like magic - but I have been known to make guys disappear.
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I don't worry. I don't doubt. I'm daring. I'm a rebel.
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Any man who doesn't love his mama can't be no friend of mine.
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Gold was a gift to Jesus. If it's good enough for Jesus, it's good enough for me!
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I didn't watch 'The A-Team' movie. I'm an artist. You can't re-paint a Rembrandt. You can't duplicate that; I don't care who you get.
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Obama's not Jesus. He can't walk on water.
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One time, this guy was bothering my mother, and me and my brothers had a stern talking with the guy and a little bit of physicality with him. So he disappeared. But I'm not a magician.
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I'm not a star. I don't feel I'm so great. So how can I make you feel great just because you've got my signature on a piece of paper?
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Don't be getting sloppy drunk and telling them dirty jokes.
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In high school, I majored in brick masonry. We had the wood shop, the machine shop, so I know about all that. I wanted to build buildings when I graduated from high school. I do know my way around that stuff.
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I tell everybody, I get so much because I give so much. I give freely, I give all my time, give all my money, give all of my soul. I try to motivate people. I try to inspire them.
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You'll never have any trouble with Mr. T, I'm just a big, calm teddy bear kind of guy. Mr. T ain't ashamed to cry. When I go out and I meet people who are suffering and they come and talk to me, Mr. T cries, Mr. T who could break a man's jaw with his fist.
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God didn't make me to make movies, flex muscles, buy gold. What you love the most becomes your God... If I never make another dollar, my life is complete.
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My mother is a strong, wonderful woman. I could never be anything she didn't want me to be.
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I am a Christian, and the Bible teaches me to forgive.
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I don't have a problem with Hulk Hogan. People say things and do things, and who am I to judge?
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Everybody has done something that we wish we didn't say or do and wish we could take it back.
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This guy Clubber Lang, I've been him all my life. He's mean and hungry just like me.
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I always was a Christian... whatsoever a man thinks in his heart is who he is.
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I always say I'm one of the toughest mama's boys you're ever gonna meet. And I say that to send a message to all the young thugs out there; that it's nothing to be ashamed of to say you love your mother.
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I'm a free spirit.
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I was one of the wildest Santa Clauses they ever had.
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If every man loves his mother, he's going to treat the ladies right, with love and respect.
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I was baptized by my father when I was 4 years old.
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I used to carry my father's Bible and put it on the pulpit so he could preach.
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I was being trained because I wanted to be a preacher like my father. I wanted to talk about Moses; I wanted to talk about God... I wanted to talk about the apostles, the disciples and all that.
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I used to bodyguard for some celebrities and other people, and when I wasn't doing that, I used to work at a disco as a doorman or a bouncer.
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I get up every morning and say, 'Father, give me strength today, not strength so I can lift 500 pounds, but give me strength, Lord, so when I speak, my words might motivate, might inspire somebody, Lord, when they see me, let them see you. When they hear me, Lord, let them hear you. In your holy name I pray.'
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I use my celebrity status to inspire someone, to give them hope.
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Stay humble and be concerned for the less fortunate.
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I don't call up the press and say, 'Look at me!'
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I listen to my mother, and that keeps me out of trouble. I'm a good son.
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If I forget to pray, I can't get through the day without snapping at people.
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Left ear, I wear four earrings. The four is symbolic of the four seasons, spring, winter, summer and fall, the four directions, north, east, south and west, the four gospel writers, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
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