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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But the universe wasn't really unfair, she thought, and her mouth quirked. It just didn't give much of a damn one way or the other.
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Thanks to former President George W. Bush - remember the compassionate conservative? - I have a good name for the fundamental principle that should guide the Democratic alternative: compassionate deficit reduction.
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I don't think boxing took more from me then I got in return. It gave me everything that I took from it. It was all fair.
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Ryan Murphy, he basically tries to find something that's a pulse, a pressure point in our culture, and he grabs it, and he squeezes it. I think 'Freak Show' has a lot to do with the entertainment industry and the way we entertain ourselves: the objectification of people and the lengths we'll go for our own amusement.
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My greatest defense was my offense. Very few guys did that.
