Mike Tyson quote: “Being a champion opens lots of doors—I'd like to get a real estate license, maybe sell insurance.”

“I'd like to get a lot done in a short period of time. ... Your head coach won’t be real patient. Trying to keep it in perspective? Yes. Real patient? No.”

Tom Crean (basketball coach) (1966) American college basketball coach

As quoted in "Crean on : rebuilding the tradition of Indiana basketball" by David Burkart in IUplanet Newsletter (7 October 2007) http://iuplanet.com/forum/indiana-basketball-news/20261-crean-rebuilding-tradition-indiana-basketball.html

“I'd like to make a vending machine that sells vending machines. It'd have to be real fuckin' big!”

Mitch Hedberg (1968–2005) American stand-up comedian

Mitch All Together (2003)

“I'd like to get a lot done in a short period of time.”

Tom Crean (basketball coach) (1966) American college basketball coach

As quoted in "Crean on : rebuilding the tradition of Indiana basketball" by David Burkart in IUplanet Newsletter (7 October 2007) http://iuplanet.com/forum/indiana-basketball-news/20261-crean-rebuilding-tradition-indiana-basketball.html
Context: I'd like to get a lot done in a short period of time.... Your head coach won’t be real patient. Trying to keep it in perspective? Yes. Real patient? No.

“The larger the deductible you choose, the less insurance you are buying. Insurers want to sell insurance.”

Andrew Tobias (1947) American journalist

Source: The Invisible Bankers, Everything The Insurance Industry Never Wanted You To Know (1982), Chapter 9, Too Much Insurance, p. 155.

“Don't let me miss the open door. Show me where the open door is and even if it's cracked up a little bit, maybe I'll just plow right on through that and maybe prematurely plow through it, but don't let me miss an open door. And if there is an open door in '12 or four years later, and if it is something that is going to be good for my family, for my state, for my nation, an opportunity for me, then I'll plow through that door.”

Sarah Palin (1964) American politician

On her considering a future run for the office of President of the United States, November 10, 2008 http://alaskareport.com/news1108/x61753_palin_2012.htm
2014

“Maybe I am becoming a hermit,
opening the door for only
a few special animals?
Maybe my skull is too crowded
and it has no opening through which
to feed it soup?”

Anne Sexton (1928–1974) poet from the United States

Source: The Awful Rowing Toward God

“I think it [getting a gun] should be like getting a pilot's license. I think you should require training to get a license to have a gun.”

Sam Harris (1967) American author, philosopher and neuroscientist

Sam Harris, Real Time with Bill Maher (February 1, 2013)
2010s

“I find that when you open the door toward openness and transparency, a lot of people will follow you through.”

Kirsten Gillibrand (1966) United States Senator from New York

Proposing reforms to increase transparency and accountability in Washington.
[Reforming the Way Washington Works, Gillibrand, Kirsten, The Huffington Post, AOL, Inc., 2010-07-20, 2015-07-08, https://web.archive.org/web/20100807221953/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rep-kirsten-gillibrand/reforming-the-way-washing_b_652793.html]

““When I get this door open, you’re dead, Jean!“
“When you get that door open? I look forward to many long years of life, then.“”

Scott Lynch book Red Seas Under Red Skies

Reminiscence “The Capa of Vel Virazzo” section 5 (p. 65)
Red Seas Under Red Skies (2007)

“When I get into trouble at school I'd like to take an invisibility cloak, drape it over me and sneak out the door. Or I'd like to have a 3-headed-dog because then no one would argue with me.”

Daniel Radcliffe (1989) English actor

http://www.danradcliffe.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=23&Itemid=28

“Being a champion opens lots of doors—I'd like to get a real estate license, maybe sell insurance.”

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