Jake LaMotta Quotes

My greatest defense was my offense. Very few guys did that.

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• I learned about M&A and how to value assets and work with investment bankers.

  

  Patricia A. Woertz
  • Work
  • Value
  • Investment

• The real guys that I knew were really cool people, who I played basketball with and traveled with on teams and knew their families and knew that they love their family. They just happen to do something that wasn't all the way legal, but it was a part of their life, and you knew that they hustled.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • People
  • Life
  • Family

• Euclid taught me that without assumptions there is no proof. Therefore, in any argument, examine the assumptions.

  

  E. T. Bell
  • Argument
  • Taught
  • Proof

• My shoes are special shoes for discerning feet.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Shoes
  • Special
  • Feet

• The art market was very different before the mid-1980s: then, art was all about passion, whereas now it's become a commodity.

  

  Adam Clayton U2
  • Different
  • Art
  • Passion

• Stephen Moyer is probably the most gracious, gifted actor that I've met. He's really intelligent. He has a real sensitivity to his character, to scenes, to scripts.

  

  Valerie Cruz
  • Real
  • Character
  • Intelligent

• I'm certainly curious about people. As a kid, I moved around a lot. I was raised in a lot of different places, and thanks to working in the movies, I've gotten to keep traveling. I've always been interested in other cultures and languages.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • Different
  • Movies

• In Bosnia, the case was there were white, blond-haired, blue-eyed Muslims who were being slaughtered and identified as Muslims. That really touched me.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Me
  • Blue
  • Being

• Well, you know, Hubbard had a bunch of people sworn to commit suicide when he died. So of course he never officially died...

  

  Larry Wall
  • People
  • Suicide

• Seeing no resolution to my existential recognition of loss, I decide to eat lunch.

  

  Chuck Klosterman

• He's just angry because the president Obama doesn't shoot old men in the face.

  

  Alan Grayson
  • Men
  • Angry

• Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.

  

  Lord Byron
  • May
  • Friendship

• Before blogging, I was living in the Middle Ages. Now my feelings for time and space are entirely different.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Time
  • Different
  • Space

• He’s tough, ma’am,-tough is J. B.; tough and devilish sly.

  

  Charles Dickens

• I started in this racket in the early '70s, and when I was president of the Science Fiction Writers of America, of which I was like the sixth president, I was the first one nobody ever heard of.

  

  Jerry Pournelle
  • America
  • Science

• We should put behind us the era of diminishing trust in public institutions and weakened confidence in our country's public leaders.

  

  Cyril Ramaphosa
  • Country
  • Trust
  • Confidence

• When a woman puts on a heel, she has a different posture, a different attitude. She really stands up and has a consciousness of her body.

  

  Christian Louboutin
  • Up
  • Different
  • She

• Central banking often comes across as obscure and complicated, and we try to help the public understand what we do.

  

  Jerome Powell
  • Help

• The wise man is he who knows the relative value of things.

  

  Dean Inge
  • Value
  • Wise

• The first thousand days of a baby's life are likely to determine the rest of her life - whether she grows up to be healthy or not, both physically and emotionally.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Life
  • Up
  • She

• I assume that - because you can get degrees in journalism from very reputable universities - I assume that people can be trained to be journalists. I've never been entirely certain that anyone can be trained to be a novelist in the same way.

  

  William Gibson
  • People
  • Journalism
  • Assuming

• My greatest defense was my offense. Very few guys did that.

  

  Jake LaMotta