Jake LaMotta Quotes
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A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon.
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Always remember that better days are ahead - if not in this life, in the next.
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I want to stop transforming and just start being.
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I've never been one to sit around and eat my heart out. Life's too short.
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There's nowhere like Detroit; it's a modern necropolis: all these art deco masterpieces crumbling away.
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I've shared the fate of many working mothers; I felt guilty like them.
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Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.
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I spent a lot of time between bars like this.
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And my friends, you ain't seen nothin' yet.
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No matter how much technology changes scouting, no matter how much free agency and big TV contracts change the business of baseball, I hope and pray that the heart of the game will never change.
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Everything is tennis for me, it's my career and it's entertainment, but it's also a business.
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I don't like to pretend I was guided in any way by the supernatural world, but the more you talk about that, the easier it is to dismiss those notions.
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There is much good luck in the world, but it is luck. We are none of us safe. We are children, playing or quarrelling on the line.
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The Web is the new way to figure out who's hot and what's not. You can't let TV dictate because it's so polished, so political. It is what they want you to know. The Internet is the raw.
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In Europe, a writer is supposed to improve up until he's about 75.
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When I watch a movie for the first few times I'm usually thinking about where I was in a given scene, who was next to me, what we were doing etc. But after I've gotten through all of this, when I'm really watching the film itself, then I get moved.
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I'm from Long Beach - not the best area in the world - and I had a lot of ghetto friends growing up.
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I feel a physical happiness when spring is coming.
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At the end of the day, if you are in Aljunied, ask yourself: Do you want one MP, one Non-Constituency MP, one celebrity who has been away 30 years, and two unknowns to look after you? Or would you prefer me and my hand-picked colleagues?
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I love that way dance music can put you in a trance.
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Love is a great force in private life; it is indeed the greatest of all things; but love in public affairs does not work.
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Mr. Lincoln's elevation shows that in America every station in life may be honorable; that there is no barrier against the humblest; but that merit, wherever it exists, has the opportunity to be known.
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Most of the American skyjackers who fled abroad eventually elected to return to the United States, having tired of life on the lam. These homecomings typically involved prearranged surrenders to the FBI, in the hopes of earning lenient sentences.
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There was only one thing I wanted out of life. That was to be the champ.
