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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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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Whoever has lost a fight in the UFC and hasn't wanted to fight that guy the next day shouldn't be in the sport.
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I grew up in a refinery town in Texas, and we weren't fancy enough to have a McDonald's.
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All the time I was playing the flute, the lines, the solos, the riffs, the construction, were based on my guitar skills. I did not play the flute to exploit its natural faculties, but I used it as a surrogate guitar.
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If you have a horse that can beat horses worth $20,000, typically you enter it in a $20,000 claiming race. Now there might be people who feel their horse is worth $20,000, and they say, 'I wouldn't mind seeing the horse get beat.' So they'll enter it for $40,000 so the horse looks like it's performed badly.
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With my father and uncle so involved in racing, it was the only thing I ever knew, so I'm sure that had a huge influence on me. However, my father had more influence on me just by the way he lived, because the way he was at the racetrack was the way he was in everyday life.
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I see myself as part English and part American, with a dash of Irish thrown in, and a pinch of Italian from my mother's ancestry.
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There was only one thing I wanted out of life. That was to be the champ.
