Jake LaMotta Quotes
I always needed money when I was younger. I had different ways of getting it. A lot of the ways I don't like to talk about.

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I never thought that I would become a staple in the Australian cultural diet. The equivalent of bread or milk, or a fine old Tasmanian Mauve Vein. I think it's because I talk about things that people dare not mention. I don't mean raunchy things or unsavoury things. I call a spade a spade - I discuss things in a realistic manner.
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Most actors can't make any kind of living.
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The voice doesn't take a lot of effort now, but in the beginning it was hard to try to find a voice. The one I settled on was just easier to do for a half-hour.
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War is the greatest failure of mankind.
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I'm getting fat... because my size, I put on 20 or 30 pounds, it doesn't show very much... I'm thinking about going back to work out in a very short time.
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I went to this one in Ohio, and then I became a counselor there, and it was just the most fun thing. I was so depressed when I came home from camp.
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When a single author uploading his own books to Amazon can earn more money than a large N.Y. publisher exploiting both print and e-rights, there's something amiss.
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What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.
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Politics is the womb in which war develops.
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I own a guitar, a piano, a bass.
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Whether it was Little League or playing with your brothers or sisters, that was always a problem. If I would lose - because I very rarely lost - then everything would go crazy.
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I can understand Communism, but not Socialism.
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Close friends consider me a literary snob.
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I've played a lot of elegance and refinement, so to do something really down and dirty is a great attraction.
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There's a lot of females that hustle, just like men hustle.
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Whenever I read a script, I start recasting the role that I might play. I'm like, 'God, this should be played by Domhnall Gleeson, not me.'
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Sometimes I thank God... for cheeseburgers.
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As actors, you play people who are not yourselves!
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I really don't own any jewelry. I paint it, but I'm not a consumer. I buy art - that's all I want.
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I'm not an easily depressed person.
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The Cold War did end in the victory of one side and in the defeat of the other. This reality cannot be denied, despite the understandable sensitivities that such a conclusion provokes among the tenderhearted in the West and some of the former leaders of the defeated side.
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Within the sphere of steampunk, there seems to be a rapidly growing subsphere of gadgetless 'neo-Victorian' novels, most of which attempt to recapture the romance of the era without all the sociopolitical ugliness.
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I shall lend credit to nothing against my people which parents would not believe against their own children.
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I always needed money when I was younger. I had different ways of getting it. A lot of the ways I don't like to talk about.