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Mr. T

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All I ever wanted to do with my life was own a little house. I did that way back with 'Rocky,' so now everything I do is just icing on the cake.
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My gold, my money couldn't stop cancer from appearing on my body. If they can't save me, then I don't need them.
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I was a straight-A student. But I was a bad lad.
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Judas betrayed Jesus. Lady Red betrayed John Dillinger. Those things happen.
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My celebrity status allows me an opportunity, allows me a pulpit to preach and reach out to the people. Not even always preaching but just leading, motivating them by being a leader.
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Like Frank Sinatra, I'm doing it my way.
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Why am I here? I'm not lucky. That's God.
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My mother never cursed at home; my father never cursed at home. My father didn't drink. Even though we were poor, we would say a blessing over the table. So that's who I am.
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I'm a child of God first. Before I became a celebrity, I was baptized a Christian.
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I'm so tough and so bad, I can be humble and lift another guy up.
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I sent out a tweet, 'Dancing with the Stars' should stop the jibber jabber. They shouldn't make the departure of a dancer so tear jerky because nobody's going to war.
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When I'm in the house of God, I don't wear my jewelry, if you're looking for my jewelry. All you see is my heart of gold.
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I'm a bold Christian, not a scaredy-cat Christian.
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I know about two things: 'Rocky III' and Clubber Lang, and 'A-Team' and B.A. Baracus. That's who I am!
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I knew I wasn't going to be a rocket scientist - let's not be fools - but I wasn't going to be a bum.
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I would never do a commercial if I thought it was offensive to anyone.
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I'm a Christian - I really don't believe in UFOs.
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The reason why I wear gold - I wear gold for three reasons. One, when Jesus was born, three wise men came from the east: one brought frankincense, one brought myrrh, the other one brought gold. The second reason I wear gold is I can afford it. The third reason I wear it, it's symbolic of my African heritage.
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If you gonna wear the mohawk, you stick with it. You don't just be dibby-dabbing. You make up your mind.
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I do watch some TV. I like the History Channel and National Geographic, and old shows on TV Land like 'Sanford and Son,' 'The Jeffersons,' and 'Benson.'
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In 1995, I was diagnosed with cancer, and I had to practice what I preached. I had always said to 'believe in God' and 'don't give up' to little kids who had been diagnosed with cancer. I then thought if I can't call on that same God and same strength that I told people about, I would be a liar and a phony.
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To kids, I've always been more than just some big tough black guy. I train to be tough - I box and do karate - but underneath all that toughness is a tender man.
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The most violent show on TV is the six o'clock news.
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I go down the street, people see me: 'Hey, I pity-' right on, man, that's a compliment to me.
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I try to use my experience and the fact that I grew up in the ghetto - I tell people you don't have to rob or steal to get out of the ghetto.
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I believed in God when cancer come to me. Now when I speak, I speak with authority because I've been there.
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I serve God.
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I don't do Shakespeare. I don't talk in that kind of broken English.
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We were poor, but we smiled.
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The blessed of us must save the less of us. I'm blessed, and yeah, I'm planning to go to Heaven.
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I'm pretty clean, hygienic and all that, but sometimes when I come home, I throw my coat over there, take one shoe off here, one shoe off there, but I'm not dirty.
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I am tough, but deep inside my toughness, I like to let people know I'm an old-fashioned mama's boy.
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A lot of the stuff I do in terms of PR, I learned it from Muhammad Ali.
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I have been chosen by God Almighty to be one of his messengers.
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I want to represent... to the kids to draw strength from me. So they can see that everybody goes through something, but you can rise up and do your best. Just try.
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I pull no punches!
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T stands for being nice. T stands for manners. T stands for being polite.
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You know, T can stand for anything. T stand for working hard. T stand for loving thy neighbor. T stand for feeding the hungry. T stand for just working, working, working, being happy on the set, you know, lifting everybody's spirits. T stands for just a nice guy.
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First name: Mister; middle name: period; last name T.
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Collection: Names
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Somedays you eat the bear, somedays the bear eats you
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Collection: Bears
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It takes a smart guy to play dumb.
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Collection: Smart
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I'm tender when I need to be. I'm tough when I should to be.
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Collection: Needs
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I remember one time I tried to pity this fool. He told me his name was Jeff. He was married. He pulled out his wallet and showed me three pictures of his kids; Kelly, Robert, Brittany. Real cute kids. Don't get too close man. It's hard to pity a fool if you get too close.
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Collection: Cute
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Love is a verb and verbs show action
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Collection: Love Is
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Anger - use it, but don't lose it!
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Collection: Use
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When I look back on my work, I'm proud of what I've done.
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Collection: Looks
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Calvin Klein and Gloria Vanderbilt don't wear clothes with your name on it, so why should you wear their name?
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My mother told me that niceness and kindness goes a long way.
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Collection: Mother
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You're going through college, and you're going to be faced with a lot of things. You're going to face adversity, the main thing is don't quit. For many people it's easy to quit, but don't. That's what separates the winners from the losers, what separates the all-stars from the also-rans.
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Collection: Education

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