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

• I have been an organizer and then activist and a legislator, all of that. But then there's this big gap after I advanced in Congress and ended up as the ranking member of financial services committee. It took me into the financial services issues and Wall Street and Dodd Frank. And it took me away from the things that I did years ago.

  

  Maxine Waters
  • Up
  • Wall
  • Financial

• For many, many people, getting married is one of the most important things they will ever do in the pursuit of happiness.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • People
  • Important
  • Pursuit

• Normal is the average of deviance.

  

  Rita Mae Brown
  • Normal
  • Average
  • Deviance

• I was always told that I acted too white. I was always told that I was going to date a white guy - which, in fairness, was true: I do have a white boyfriend. So they weren't entirely wrong, but all of those things were really damaging.

  

  Jessica Williams
  • True
  • Guy
  • Boyfriend

• For me, as an actress, you are playing a character, and to play that character, you have to get into that mindset.

  

  Amy Jackson
  • Character
  • Mindset

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

  

  Jake LaMotta