Jake LaMotta Quotes

I used to psyche myself out. Only, back then, we didn't know the word 'psyche.'

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• I breeze through Twitter - I look at the mentions, the pictures, the videos.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Look
  • Pictures
  • Twitter

• The Catholic Church was the church of the colonial fascist regime.

  

  Samora Machel
  • Church
  • Catholic
  • Colonial

• You mustn't upstage the bride.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • You
  • Bride

• It would be a foolish high representative who worked that way.

  

  Paddy Ashdown
  • High
  • Way
  • Foolish

• I think people get excited about someone discovering something that blew their mind when they were younger. I think it makes people kind of nostalgic and happy. That's one of the really great things about the Internet, that it can bring people together in that way of just being interested in the same stuff.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • People
  • Great
  • Mind

• 'Sicario' was successful, but it was successful because Denis and the producers were, you know, they were very lean. It was very lean filmmaking.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Know
  • Successful
  • Filmmaking

• The mathematician, carried along on his flood of symbols, dealing apparently with purely formal truths, may still reach results of endless importance for our description of the physical universe.

  

  Karl Pearson
  • May
  • Universe
  • Results

• I never understood the idea that I was a 'backpack rapper.' I think that's a lazy way that people started thinking. They like saying that because I got dreads. I look like I belong a certain place, so it's easy to put everything in a box.

  

  Wale
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Lazy

• Lenders, including major credit companies as well as payday lenders, have taken over the traditional role of the street-corner loan shark, charging the poor insanely high rates of interest.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • High
  • Taken
  • Interest

• Actors use who they are to be someone else, but I would hate to ever think I'm playing myself. It's imagining being someone else that is the key motivating thing for me. So when people want to know about me, it makes me a bit unnerved.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • People
  • Hate
  • Myself

• I always thought it would be cool to go to the island of misfit toys.

  

  Camren Bicondova
  • Cool
  • Thought
  • Island

• I sing in a higher register, and you haven't heard that on the radio in years.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
  • You
  • Years
  • Radio

• Financial markets need to become less, not more, efficient.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Financial

• 'The contingency is remote.' (This is also a Jeeves quote in the PG Wodehouse Novels)

  

  Jack Vance

• I don't think the mystical experience can be verbalized. When the ego disappears, so does power over language.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Experience
  • Power
  • Ego

• Anita: My life works for me right now, but it wouldn't work for a child. Ronnie: Why, because you don't have a husband? Anita: No, because people try to kill me on a semiregular basis.

  

  Laurell K. Hamilton
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• People are deeply imbedded in philosophical, i.e., grammatical confusions. And to free them presupposes pulling them out of the immensely manifold connections they are caught up in.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • People
  • Up
  • Free

• My head-dress was a bugle-band like the border to my gown, and a flower of Mrs Tilson’s. I depended upon hearing something of the evening from Mr. W. K., and am very well satisfied with his notice of me - 'A pleasing looking young woman' - that must do; one cannot pretend to anything better now; thankful to have it continued a few years longer!

  

  Jane Austen
  • Band
  • Flower
  • Thankful

• When I was 41, I had a very bad back pain, and it turned out to be Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.

  

  Pamela Druckerman
  • Bad
  • Pain

• The evil into which these philosophers have fallen is greater than that from which they sought to escape, because they refuse to say that God neglects or forgets a thing, and yet they maintain that His knowledge is imperfect, that He is ignorant of what is going on here on earth, that He does not perceive it.

  

  Maimonides
  • God
  • Earth
  • Knowledge

• The thing has already taken form in my mind before I start it. The first attempts are absolutely unbearable. I say this because I want you to know that if you see something worthwhile in what I am doing, it is not by accident but because of real direction and purpose.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Mind
  • Real
  • Purpose

• I consider fiction a very high-class form of lying. I enjoy and admire it enormously, but I don't think I'm very good at it.

  

  Diane Ackerman
  • Thinking
  • Enjoy
  • Lying

• I used to psyche myself out. Only, back then, we didn't know the word 'psyche.'

  

  Jake LaMotta