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" If you get knocked down - setbacks in life, like applying for a job if they don't hire you - keep trying, keep getting up, keep doing it. "
Mr. T
Trying
Doing
You
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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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" 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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Knowledge
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" I pull no punches! "
Mr. T
Pull
Punches
" I don't worry. I don't doubt. I'm daring. I'm a rebel. "
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" When I'm ready to fight, my opponent has a better chance of surviving a forest fire wearing gasoline drawers. "
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Fight
Chance
" 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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Name
Change
Enough
" 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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Shoe
Sometimes
Off
" This guy Clubber Lang, I've been him all my life. He's mean and hungry just like me. "
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Mean
Him
Life
" I was a straight-A student. But I was a bad lad. "
Mr. T
Lad
Student
Bad
" When you give, it comes back to you. "
Mr. T
Give
Back
You
" My mother told me, 'Son, nobody else but God knows.' And that's what I'm about - reaching out to the people, crying with them, giving them hope. Visiting the hospital, visiting the kids with cancer, visiting the adults, and stuff like that. That's what I do. "
Mr. T
Me
God
Hope
" I take a lot of pride in the work I do, because people pay to see me. They've got to get babysitters, park their car, get popcorn and candy. I've got to be conscious of that. "
Mr. T
People
Pride
Work
" When my ancestors came from Africa, they were shackled by our neck, our wrists, and our ankles in steel chains. I've turned those steel chains into gold to symbolize the fact that I'm still a slave, only my price tag is higher. "
Mr. T
Africa
Chains
Gold
" My mother is a strong, wonderful woman. I could never be anything she didn't want me to be. "
Mr. T
Want
Woman
Strong
" Like Frank Sinatra, I'm doing it my way. "
Mr. T
Frank
Doing
Way
" I'll never have a wedding. I don't want to marry just to do what everybody else is doing. "
Mr. T
Wedding
Never
Want
" I believed in God when cancer come to me. Now when I speak, I speak with authority because I've been there. "
Mr. T
Me
Speak
Authority
" I use my celebrity status to inspire someone, to give them hope. "
Mr. T
Give
Celebrity
Someone
" 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
Job
God
Faith
" I was baptized by my father when I was 4 years old. "
Mr. T
Baptized
Years
Old
" If people are cool, then they are not stressed. I pity the fool that don't be cool. "
Mr. T
Fool
Cool
People
" I am a tough guy. "
Mr. T
Tough Guy
Am
Guy
" I have the Midas touch, in the way that when I hook up with a project, I feel, not speaking cocky or conceited, but there's a confidence I have. I learned that from Muhammad Ali; I used to bodyguard him. He taught me about confidence. So when it comes to any job I work, I'm gonna do it good; I'm going to bring it over the top. "
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Job
Me
Work
" I listen to my mother, and that keeps me out of trouble. I'm a good son. "
Mr. T
Me
Listen
Mother
" I'm tough when I have to be, tender when I should be. When you find a really tough guy, he's not a predator. He doesn't have to prove himself. Guys who have to pretend to be tough, they ain't. I'm tough. "
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Pretend
Tough
Find
" I love performing, you know, because, like I say, I'm a ham for this stuff. "
Mr. T
Say
You
Because
" I'm so tough and so bad, I can be humble and lift another guy up. "
Mr. T
Up
Humble
Be Humble
" Gold was a gift to Jesus. If it's good enough for Jesus, it's good enough for me! "
Mr. T
Enough
Gift
Me
" The blessed of us must save the less of us. I'm blessed, and yeah, I'm planning to go to Heaven. "
Mr. T
Blessed
Planning
Save
" I pity the fool who just gives up. "
Mr. T
Fool
Pity
Who