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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I love acting. I do it as a hobby. If I was able to have that as a career... Hopefully the fashion thing is a stepping-stone. I was so worried when I started modeling that it would hinder my chances of acting.
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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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The terrorist action of 9/11 gave birth to President Obama's entry to the White House. Not directly, but indirectly.
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My friendship with the great actor and director Alan Rickman did not have a particularly auspicious start.
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Documentaries - my God, there is so much going on in our country and in the world today that every time you open the newspaper or turn on the radio or watch the news on TV there is another documentary subject. We're getting the headlines for a second, shaped by corporate delivery most of the time, but what's really the story there?
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Always remember that better days are ahead - if not in this life, in the next.
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There's a lot of people all over the world that talked about me.
