Jake LaMotta Quotes

Ask most guys what their ambition is, and they'll say they want to get rich. But when they get rich, they discover it's not what they wanted at all. I don't want to be rich.

Jake LaMotta

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• When your conscience says law is immoral, don't follow it.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Law
  • Conscience
  • Follow

• September 11 was a wake-up call to me. I don't want to contribute to the hate in any shape or form. I now regret in the past being silent about what I have heard in the Islamic discourse and being part of that with my own anger.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • Up
  • Past
  • Hate

• Actor's life is very long.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Life
  • Long
  • Actor

• Menon the Thessalian did not either conceal his immoderate desire of riches or his desire of commanding, in order to increase them, or of being esteemed for the same reason. He desired to be well with those in power, that his injustice might escape punishment.

  

  Xenophon
  • Power
  • Desire
  • Escape

• We love playing music but we're too weird to play music.

  

  Wayne Coyne
  • Music
  • Love
  • Weird

• How a piece ends is very important to me. It's the last chance to leave an impression with the reader, the last shot at 'nailing' it. I love to write ending lines; usually, I know them first and write toward them, but if I knew how they came to me, I wouldn't tell.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • Important
  • Love
  • Chance

• Sweet is good. I'm not a fan of deep-fried things.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Good
  • Things
  • Deep

• Even President Obama has not suggested he could get another country to pay for building a wall between Mexico and the United States.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Country
  • Wall
  • President

• As soon as it was clear, in Copenhagen in 2009, that the Senate was blocking Obama from introducing meaningful climate legislation, the push was for him to use executive authority, use the EPA, use the tool of federal leases, and there was just a refusal to do it.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Meaningful
  • Authority
  • Him

• I had a pretty public divorce. They're not easy - divorces - and it took me a long time to really get through.

  

  Nas
  • Time
  • Long
  • Pretty

• I used to just sit in the living room and make up songs on the keyboard.

  

  Fleur East
  • Up
  • Living
  • Just

• When someone calls you 'gay,' there's not much you can do about that because I am. Whereas, if someone calls you fat, there is something you can do about that.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Gay
  • Fat

• You'll see me on 'Top Chef' someday. My Midwestern hospitality needs an outlet, you know?

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Know
  • Me
  • See

• I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not of the spheres, but of earth, subtleties of major and minor chord that the wind strikes upon the tree branches. Have you ever heard the earth breathe?

  

  Kate Chopin
  • Music
  • Earth
  • Wonder

• Every American, I think, should be able to fill out their taxes on a postcard.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • American
  • Think
  • Taxes

• I honestly don't read that much. Obviously I read chess books - in terms of favorites, Kasparov's 'My Great Predecessors' is pretty good.

  

  Magnus Carlsen
  • Good
  • Great
  • Pretty

• My parents worked in the film industry, but they both worked behind the camera, so I like to think that I have a really good understanding of how all the parts of the puzzle come together to make a film or TV show.

  

  Dacre Montgomery
  • Good
  • Together
  • Parents

• There are so many aspects to science that I couldn't give up – the rigor, the discoveries, the teaching. The impact that science has on the world around us is something I'm enthralled with. I don't think anyone could ever take that out of me.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • World
  • Science
  • Me

• I only hope that one day, America will recognize what the rest of the world already has known, that our indigenous music - gospel, blues, jazz and R&B - is the heart and soul of all popular music; and that we cannot afford to let this legacy slip into obscurity, I'm telling you.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • World
  • Music
  • Heart

• My mother-in-law, Nanny, spent her working years as a bookkeeper at a medical office in Columbus, Ohio. Like so many Americans, she worked hard and paid into Medicare, knowing that one day she could count on having high-quality health care when she needed it most.

  

  Ann McLane Kuster
  • She
  • Mother
  • High

• They change the sheets every day... from one bed to another.

  

  Jack Roy
  • Change
  • Bed
  • Sheets

• In private enterprises men may advance or recede, whereas they who aim at empire have no alternative between the highest success and utter downfall.

  

  Tacitus
  • Men
  • May
  • Success

• Ask most guys what their ambition is, and they'll say they want to get rich. But when they get rich, they discover it's not what they wanted at all. I don't want to be rich.

  

  Jake LaMotta
  • Ambition