Jake LaMotta Quotes
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I learned about M&A and how to value assets and work with investment bankers.
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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.
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Euclid taught me that without assumptions there is no proof. Therefore, in any argument, examine the assumptions.
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My shoes are special shoes for discerning feet.
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The art market was very different before the mid-1980s: then, art was all about passion, whereas now it's become a commodity.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Well, you know, Hubbard had a bunch of people sworn to commit suicide when he died. So of course he never officially died...
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Seeing no resolution to my existential recognition of loss, I decide to eat lunch.
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He's just angry because the president Obama doesn't shoot old men in the face.
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Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.
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Before blogging, I was living in the Middle Ages. Now my feelings for time and space are entirely different.
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He’s tough, ma’am,-tough is J. B.; tough and devilish sly.
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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.
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We should put behind us the era of diminishing trust in public institutions and weakened confidence in our country's public leaders.
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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.
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Central banking often comes across as obscure and complicated, and we try to help the public understand what we do.
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In common with many who have a brain injury, I initially lost my confidence and felt very vulnerable, as if a protective layer of skin had been stripped away.
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My early childhood memories center around this typical American country store and life in a small American town, including 4th of July celebrations marked by fireworks and patriotic music played from a pavilion bandstand.
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George has only got to ring me. His imagination is so wonderful, I'd do any character he might create.
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With the mission to Mars, the whole world wants to get involved. So we actually have 13 different space agencies from around the world working on the global exploration road map.
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I don't have time to celebrate accomplishments. When good things happen, it's great, and obviously I get excited inside. But soon I gotta do something else; I gotta keep doing more stuff. The whole world will never be familiar, so I'm constantly going to be on a quest to get familiar.
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My greatest defense was my offense. Very few guys did that.
