Jake LaMotta Quotes
Forward, always moving forward, from the time I can remember - a kid. I was short, and the big guys would take advantage; I had to turn myself into a body puncher. By that time I was in reform school, they'd have a boxing match every week; they'd bring guys in from outside to fight me.Jake LaMotta
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If it weren't for the Internet, WWE probably wouldn't even know my name. If I had to rely on 'Pro Wrestling Illustrated' to get my name out there, it would have been a much more difficult road.
Daniel Bryan -
I am a Buddhist.
Orlando Bloom -
A new untruth is better than an old truth.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. -
Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. -
The resolution has made a real threat of war go away and opens the way for further work in the interests of a political- diplomatic settlement of the situation around Iraq.
Igor Ivanov -
Smaller wrestlers are built for more exciting matches.
Daniel Bryan
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After one Olympics, if we invest in sports and say we will get a gold medal in the next Olympic, it doesn't work like that in sports. How it works is that you provide the infrastructure, provide education about nutrition and health.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni -
Running back was always my favorite position.
Barry Sanders -
I think socializing on the Internet is to socializing what reality TV is to reality.
Aaron Sorkin -
Sure, 'Les Miserables' can be melodramatic. And seeing the musical instead of reading the novel will save you some time and spare you the long part where Hugo goes on and on about the Parisian sewer system. But I would hate for the novel to lose that.
Garth Risk Hallberg -
People don't remember each tree in a park but all of us benefit from the trees. And in a way, artists are like trees in a park.
Yoko Ono -
My father is an amazing person.
Mahesh Babu
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Since the end of the Cold War, Soviet aggression had been replaced by a number of particularly venomous threats, from Timothy McVeigh to Osama bin Laden.
Barbara Olson -
Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.
Oscar Levant -
The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.
Dale Carnegie -
Exercise, from a public health perspective, is an unmitigated failure. The world's longest-lived people live in environments that nudge them into more movement. They don't use power tools, they do their own yard work, they grow a garden.
Dan Buettner -
I respect the system out there in Hollywood, I really do, but I'm very intent on art versus commerce. I want to do it all - film, TV and theatre - if it's the right job.
Laura Donnelly -
Everything is a narrative in life. I learned that early on as a reporter at the 'Washington Post.'
Kara Swisher
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To share a lot of ideas - not ideas - emotions, a way of looking at people, a way of looking at life. If it can be shared, it means there is a common denominator.
Agnes Varda -
I went through college while working a full-time manual-labor job, and I don't regret a minute of it; it was a great learning experience.
Phyllis Schlafly -
I went out to visit Dorsey Burnette, after I graduated high school.
Jimmy Griffin Black Tie -
I think the reason I love 'Antiques Roadshow' is that it is sort of like the lottery. There's the chance a regular Joe could walk in with anything and come out close to a millionaire. There's the thrill of the find.
Lara Spencer -
I really loved what the guys were doing more than anything, how high they jumped, how effortless it was.
Peggy Fleming -
Forward, always moving forward, from the time I can remember - a kid. I was short, and the big guys would take advantage; I had to turn myself into a body puncher. By that time I was in reform school, they'd have a boxing match every week; they'd bring guys in from outside to fight me.
Jake LaMotta