Jake LaMotta Quotes
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Through love one acquires renunciation and discrimination naturally.
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You can follow your favorite company or organization. You can also mix that in with your family and your social network and talk about all these interests in real time. That's the value, not the brand 'Twitter.' Twitter just provides the venue for it.
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My health is fine.
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Common Core results finally give families an accurate barometer of whether our kids are mastering the skills they need to succeed in a knowledge-based global economy, early enough that we can intervene.
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Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
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Effective preaching starts with loving the people we're preaching to.
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More and more, we're used to taking things in through the eyes rather than through the ears, and opera is more of a spectacle.
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Learning should be a joy and full of excitement. It is life's greatest adventure; it is an illustrated excursion into the minds of the noble and the learned.
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There has got to be more to life than being a really, really, ridiculously good actor.
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I'm at the age most people are sending their kids off to college.
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I spent a lot of time doing things other people wanted me to do, so I'm doing what I want to do now.
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Zach Galifianakis is hilarious. I worked with him on a pilot before; he's hilarious and such a nice person.
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'Castle' is a guy living in a fantasy world. He's in his imagination, writing these stories of murder.
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The things I learned from the army - and I think it was a lesson for life - was how to work in unison with other people. How to take responsibility.
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I dreamed about this as a kid, that I would write - and people would read - a whole series of books. I feel accomplished, giddy, and tired. Mostly, though, I feel thankful. A trilogy is a huge investment on the part of author, publisher, and reader, and I'm grateful that so many people were willing to invest along with me.
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I don't stop at my past; I like new work. I like what I'm doing tomorrow.
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My favorite prayer is Footprints in the Sand. You know that prayer? I know the times that he carried me, you know? I kind of wore him out.
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When you forgive somebody, it doesn't necessarily mean you want to invite them to your table.
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Great music - say jazz - has that inventive, improvisational quality that tells us something about life.
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Look at the Quakers - they were excellent business people that never lied, never stole; they cared for their employees and the community which gave them the wealth. They never took more money out than they put back in.
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I'm a vegetarian who doesn't like eggplant parmesan. Isn't that awful? I'm also sick of portobello mushrooms. People are like, 'A vegetarian's coming to dinner,' so they serve those.
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When you have confidence, that's what becomes attractive to other people and makes them want to work with you and spend time with you.
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There's a lot of people all over the world that talked about me.
