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.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Learn
  • Doing
  • Before

• I second-guess myself all the time. I make a decision and then wonder if I made the wrong choice.

  

  Kate Walsh
  • Time
  • Myself
  • Decision

• My wife and I have a tradition of popcorn and videos with our kids on Friday evenings.

  

  Ozwald Boateng
  • Kids
  • Wife
  • Tradition

• 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?'

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Different
  • Character
  • Look

• At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Time
  • Children
  • Pilgrim

• I really wanted to work and become independent.

  

  Victoria Abril
  • Work
  • Independent
  • Become

• The news comes somewhat late, but I'm glad to hear it nevertheless.

  

  Malcolm Campbell
  • News
  • Hear
  • Late

• 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!

  

  Edie Brickell
  • Kids
  • Sweet
  • Big

• 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.

  

  Aaron Schock
  • Good
  • Important
  • Exercise

• 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.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Home
  • House
  • Dream

• Legislators have a formal set of responsibilities to work together, but there's no hierarchy.

  

  Barney Frank
  • Work
  • Together
  • Formal

• 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.

  

  Kamala Harris
  • Book
  • Rich
  • Data

• 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.

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • Music
  • Culture
  • Words

• Welcome to President Bush, Mrs. Bush, and my fellow astronauts.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • President
  • Welcome
  • Bush

• I love Lauryn Hill, Tracy Chapman, Fiona Apple. People like that. People you can really connect to on the most basic human level.

  

  Banks
  • People
  • Like
  • Level

• I always found the appeal to the market gods a bit odd. Why would the market fix mistakes instead of aggravating them?

  

  Dan Ariely
  • Why
  • Always
  • Mistakes

• My natural inclination to be improv rather than an educated character serves me well.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Character
  • Me
  • Educated

• A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • May
  • Man
  • Question

• I think it's... I don't want to become a social crusader on this issue, but I think sports, male sports, has traditionally not been an inviting environment for gay men to identify themselves. But eventually... we will get to a place where it is not an issue in sports.

  

  David Stern
  • Men
  • Environment
  • Sports

• And it's okay if you have to go away. Oh, just remember the telephone works both ways ((You and I Both))

  

  Jason Mraz
  • Remember
  • Way
  • Ifs

• Presumption should never make us neglect that which appears easy to us, nor despair make us lose courage at the sight of difficulties.

  

  Benjamin Banneker
  • Courage
  • Challenges
  • Easy

• Some of the best auditions I've ever had have been when my agent called and said, 'They want you 20 minutes ago, in an office in Century City, to see you for something.' I'm not sitting there thinking for a week and a half, before I'm supposed to go in front of a network president to do something. That just gives you time to be nervous.

  

  Billy Campbell
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • City

• Since the Bush-Cheney Administration took office in January 2001, controlling the major oil and natural gas fields of the world had been the primary, though undeclared, priority of US foreign policy... Not only the invasion of Iraq, but also the toppling of the Taliban in Afghanistan, had nothing to do with 'democracy,' and everything to do with pipeline control across Central Asia and the militarization of the Middle East.

  

  F. William Engdahl
  • Democracy
  • Administration
  • Afghanistan

• 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.

  

  Jake LaMotta