Jake LaMotta Quotes
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We must never forget that Black History is American History. The achievements of African Americans have contributed to our nation's greatness.
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Suffering turns men towards their creator.
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Rahm Emanuel is, we are almost certain, a vampire.
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One should see the world, and see himself as a scale with an equal balance of good and evil. When he does one good deed the scale is tipped to the good - he and the world is saved. When he does one evil deed the scale is tipped to the bad - he and the world is destroyed.
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I love my iPhone - I've actually gotten into games, and I find them really relaxing. Don't laugh at me, but I have 'Sally's Spa' - fantastic; 'Penguin Catapult' - it's great; and 'Word Solitaire' is my new favorite.
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During the 1960s, the Shanghai of my childhood seemed a portent of the media cities of the future, dominated by advertising and mass circulation newspapers and swept by unpredictable violence.
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Horror and panic themselves are forms of violence, and diminishing them, restricting their dimensions, is itself a civilizing act.
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I think video games are a great kind of entertainment. They have replaced a lot of games people normally play with their friends and neighbours, like Monopoly.
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In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death.
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Growing up in the Sacramento Valley in the '70s, we were all pretty big into cars. Of course, I had to nerd out and be a fan of Bob Tullius' Group 44 Jaguars instead of Corvettes/Camaros.
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We started playing music from an early age and so we wasn't really aware of that side of it, the weird thing is the more successful you get the more free booze and drugs you get, they should be given to the bands who don't have the money.
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If you don't acknowledge differences, it's as bad as stereotyping or reducing someone.
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Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.
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Telluride has an incredible history and reputation, and I've long known of it as a unique entity that makes a place for writers - one more aspect of this exceptional film festival in the Colorado Alps.
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I can say that I had a particularly painful teenage-hood.
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I've always had a duck personality. Calm above water, feet going crazy below.
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And there are no stars and that you're never really sure who's doing what and what voice is what and, you know what I mean? It's supposed to be quite elusive.
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There's a lot of whiners in every crowd.
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I like doing movies that relate to people's experience.
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Almost all the golf courses in Staten Island double as something else.
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We have to give our opinion, we have to say something, or we are a part of it. As an artist I am forced to say something.
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I like to walk when I can. Otherwise, it's the bus - while we still have them.
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I play solitaire and wait for something to happen.