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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When the 'Seinfeld' show said it was going to be a show about nothing, everybody said it couldn't - wouldn't work. It did. 'Thor' is about something, about that character finding his destiny, but it's not doing what was expected... and yet it's doing very well.
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The force of the guinea you have in your pocket depends wholly on the default of a guinea in your neighbour's pocket. If he did not want it, it would be of no use to you.
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When a new coach comes to a new club with new ways, new ideas, the players have to adapt.
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I'd rather have a part where you walk into a room and you leave. That's perfect for me.
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Talent without effort is wasted talent. And while effort is the one thing you can control in your life, applying that effort intelligently is next on the list.
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The worst mistake of first contact, made throughout history by individuals on both sides of every new encounter, has been the unfortunate habit of making assumptions. It often proved fatal.
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There was only one thing I wanted out of life. That was to be the champ.
