Jake LaMotta Quotes
I ask for personal appearance fees because I've earned them. I deserve them. My presence at events is what they need, so they ought to pay for it.
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For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.
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I second-guess myself all the time. I make a decision and then wonder if I made the wrong choice.
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My wife and I have a tradition of popcorn and videos with our kids on Friday evenings.
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The biggest research of all when I do a character is self-examination. You look at yourself and you ask, 'How am I similar to this person and how am I different?'
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At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.
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I really wanted to work and become independent.
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The news comes somewhat late, but I'm glad to hear it nevertheless.
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I have taken the marshmallows off the sweet potatoes, however. They would make a big pan of sweet potatoes and cover it with marshmallows. My kids would love it if I would do that for them!
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Exercise is more important than diet for me because it's a twofer. It keeps me in good physical shape, and it relieves stress. And when you're a representative of the public, there's never a shortage of things to do.
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If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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Legislators have a formal set of responsibilities to work together, but there's no hierarchy.
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My friends always said that I should be a comedienne - I was named my class clown.
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What we know is smartphones are everywhere and they are rich in data. What we know is that there are apps once downloaded by the consumer that will also in turn download the consumers' contact book. Most consumers don't want that to happen and don't know it's happening.
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I always felt really alone because no one wanted to talk about the things that I enjoyed, and that was really rap music and hip-hop as a culture. You know, having the shoes, using the words, buying the magazines, seeing the videos. And I had nobody to share it with, so I feel like I lived a lot online.
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Welcome to President Bush, Mrs. Bush, and my fellow astronauts.
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I love Lauryn Hill, Tracy Chapman, Fiona Apple. People like that. People you can really connect to on the most basic human level.
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I always found the appeal to the market gods a bit odd. Why would the market fix mistakes instead of aggravating them?
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My natural inclination to be improv rather than an educated character serves me well.
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We all remember the BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, the worst oil spill in U.S. history. What is less well known is that BP is claiming a 9.9 billion tax deduction on the money they had to spend cleaning up their own mess and paying for damages they caused. That is absurd.
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I like dropping into a small club and playing with some people, trying to help them get a start.
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My house is very clean apart from a very small part of it that looks as if we've been burgled, which is my office.
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The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.
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I ask for personal appearance fees because I've earned them. I deserve them. My presence at events is what they need, so they ought to pay for it.
