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

• There's an arc to an action sequence, and you need to come out the other end knowing your character better, and maybe the story has moved forward in a compelling way.

  

  David Leitch
  • Character
  • Action

• I remember my very first encounter with Japan. At that time, I was Deputy Mayor of St Petersburg. Out of nowhere, Japan's Consul General in St Petersburg came to my office and said Japan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs wanted to invite me to Japan. I was very surprised because I had nothing to do with Japan except being a judoka. This was an opportunity to visit Tokyo and a couple of other cities. And, you know, a capital is a capital everywhere: there is the official script and certain protocol. It is always easier to talk in the provinces, the conversation is more natural.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Remember
  • Opportunity
  • Couple

• Of all the many leaders I have met in the course of my life, none made a deeper impression on me than Nelson Mandela. His courage, compassion, humility and wisdom were without parallel on the world stage, and he himself was an enduring source of inspiration.

  

  Klaus Schwab
  • Life
  • World
  • Wisdom

• I don't consider ideas for apps all that valuable. It's the implementation of an idea that matters.

  

  John Gruber

• In the past it would take you weeks, if not months, to identify how Iranian activists connect to each other. Now you know how they connect to each other by looking at their Facebook page. KGB ... used to torture in order to get this data.

  

  Evgeny Morozov
  • Past
  • Internet
  • Week

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

  

  Jake LaMotta