Jake LaMotta Quotes
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I've always thought that I'm sexy in my own right, but not in a way that people thought was bankable.
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Why is it so unutterably beneficial, the thought that someone besides myself knows me?
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MTV didn't call. I guess I wasn't hip and groovy enough.
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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.
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When I was a child - in wartime, pre-television - books were my life.
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It is true that in France, women put on less things. If they have a necklace, they don't put on earrings; if they have nail polish, they don't put on all their rings and all their bracelets.
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I have little doubt that gerontologists will eventually find a way to avoid, or more likely, delay, the unpleasantries of extended life.
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We're never going to be able to get rid of terrorism, because there is always going to be evil in the world.
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I think every day we look at the mess of the chaos of the civil war in Iraq, I think every day people become more and more convinced that the war was a mistake. I think we have to learn from the mistakes of our past.
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Everybody goes through a phase of fatigue, and I am no different. Re-inventing yourself in your profession is the key to deal with fatigue.
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Is a family just the strict definition of a small and discrete unit, or is it about the larger organic group that inevitably grows up around the smaller one?
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There's only one way to become a hitter. Go up to the plate and get mad. Get mad at yourself and mad at the pitcher.
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I was given the task of I.P.L. Chairmanship which I tried to perform to the best of my abilities. The tournament was organised well despite all the controversies. The stadiums were jam-packed, which proved that I.P.L. was still popular.
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My business issues are just that - business - and I deal with them like they are business.
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I love Japan, and Tokyo is my favorite city.
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I've always been a bubbly and energetic and happy person, but when I get upset, I get frustrated; when someone makes me mad, I definitely have a temper, and I've had to deal with having a temper my whole life.
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I feel very English. I'm proud of it. I wanted there to be a thread connecting everything, the songs, clothes, artwork, even the string arrangements. It all creates a certain atmosphere.
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I didn't go out of my way to get into this movie stuff. I think of myself as a writer.
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Humans are an embarrassing species w/ small glimmers of beauty that seep through the veil of bigotry&stupidity, every once in a small while.
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You make movies for the people. If critics happen to like them too, well, that's a home run.
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I first met Kim Dae Jung when he was a Korean dissident whose life was threatened by the military regime ruling in Seoul. I was Ronald Reagan's Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights, and Kim was directed to me because the East Asia Bureau at the State Department had long shunned him.
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So, when you see a kid with ratty jeans on, wearing sneakers that aren't clean, you know they're in a certain place economically. I was interested in that experience.
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Amanda Bynes and I have become close since filming 'Hairspray.' It's so weird because I grew up watching her.
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I wasn't born to be a fighter. My hands are too small, and look at these short arms.
