Jake LaMotta Quotes

Besides being a slum kid with no great education in anything except how to fight and stay alive and steal, I also had this temper.

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• I think having a great idea is vastly overrated. I know it sounds kind of crazy and counterintuitive. I don't think it matters what the idea is, almost. You need great execution.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Great
  • Crazy
  • Execution

• I taught English and history, so my education for that really helped prepare me for writing historical fiction.

  

  Candace Camp
  • Writing
  • History
  • Education

• The family teaches us about the importance of knowledge, education, hard work and effort. It teaches us about enjoying ourselves, having fun, keeping fit and healthy.

  

  Kamisese Mara
  • Work
  • Family
  • Fun

• I practice safe sex - I use an airbag.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Practice
  • Sex
  • Safe

• The childhood poverty of both my parents and their minimal education did much to influence me and my two younger brothers in our education and career choices. One brother became a dentist and the other, a professor of anthropology with a Ph.D. degree.

  

  Ferid Murad
  • Career
  • Parents
  • Education

• My coaches were great. My mom and dad. My dad never missed a wrestling meet.

  

  Dan Gable
  • Great
  • Dad
  • Mom

• America's growth historically has been fueled mostly by investment, education, productivity, innovation and immigration. The one thing that doesn't seem to have anything to do with America's growth rate is a brutal work schedule.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Work
  • America
  • Education

• Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Great
  • Heaven
  • Beginning

• Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

  

  G. M. Trevelyan
  • Education
  • Reading
  • Worth

• Ninety-nine percent of the time, when it comes down to it, if I have the choice between a great role and seeing a new guy, I would probably go for the great role because I figure if the guy's really that great that he'll be around once I'm done with the movie.

  

  Madeline Zima
  • Time
  • Great
  • Done

• I had always wanted to be on SNL, it's not always great, but it's this leftover childhood dream.

  

  Rachel Dratch
  • Great
  • Dream
  • Childhood

• I feel creatively vibrant. I have some great friends; I feel like I'm capable of giving a lot to the world. And ultimately, that's what I really care about, is just giving.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • World
  • Great
  • Friends

• Nothing changes and very little happens in Paris. This is a great place to work without distraction - and then I run away to New York, where I have a life!

  

  Malcolm Mclaren
  • Life
  • Work
  • Great

• Irvin Kershner, no matter what anyone says, has done some great work. 'Eyes of Laura Mars' is an incredible movie.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Work
  • Great
  • Done

• When you come through a business education, a lot of what they teach you is to make decisions through analysis, and logic and rationale, and I'm a big believer in that. But I also believe in the power of instinct. The truth is you're never going to have a perfect answer or view of how it is going to work.

  

  Imran Amed
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Business

• The purpose of education is to keep a culture from being drowned in senseless repetitions, each of which claims to offer a new insight.

  

  Harold Rosenberg
  • Culture
  • Education
  • Purpose

• Education and work are the levers to uplift a people.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • People
  • Work
  • Education

• We need to question technology to insure that markets continue to perform their fundamental purposes.

  

  Bart Chilton
  • Question
  • Technology
  • Need

• As education and employment secretary in 1997, I inherited hundreds of schools where the roofs leaked, the windows rattled, and they relied entirely on outside toilets.

  

  David Blunkett
  • Education

• If you look within the United States, religion seems to make you a better person. Yet atheist societies do very well - better, in many ways, than devout ones.

  

  Paul Bloom
  • Atheist

• Labels, boxes, and politically correct terminology all seem small and irrelevant when being compared to the violent and brutal attacks on the lives of people who are different than what society says we should be.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • People
  • Different
  • Society

• I remember watching the Twin Towers collapse. Because it was another country and looked like a film, I just sort of thought, 'Oh.' I didn't think that much. Then three days later, it hit me. I was in a terrible state, and I was tearful for three or four days.

  

  Bradley Walsh
  • Country
  • Remember
  • Twin

• We have had to play some mighty tough audiences.

  

  Doc Watson

• Besides being a slum kid with no great education in anything except how to fight and stay alive and steal, I also had this temper.

  

  Jake LaMotta
  • Great
  • Education