Jake LaMotta Quotes

You couldn't drop me! You never dropped me.

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• I think that a lot of women that know they're going to be part of history somehow decide to have a character to be remembered by.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Women
  • Character
  • History

• The most frequently asked question I hear first-time entrepreneurs ask is, 'How do I know when to launch my product?' The answer, more often than not, should be: 'Now!'

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Time
  • Know
  • Question

• I kind of feel like people like to dump on 'Home Improvement,' and I don't know why.

  

  Patricia Richardson
  • People
  • Why
  • Home

• You talk all the time about being connected, being a unit, believing in each other. But if you have unnamed sources, people out there cutting you down, and then you find out it's the person calling the plays - that would be really hard to deal with, to look at him the same way.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • People
  • Time
  • Cutting

• At the resurrection, there will be the return of spirits to their bodies, the revivification of the bodies, and the remaking of the bodies.

  

  Said Nursi
  • Will
  • Return
  • Resurrection

• I'm still a firm believer that we were definitely put here to use our minds, and that is what makes us different. And that that's the key. If there is anything that is going to stop mankind from being such a beastly, destructive creature, it is reason.

  

  Caleb Carr
  • Different
  • Stop
  • Reason

• Phones are a big deal, but tablets are an even bigger deal. So we're doing a lot of design work and experimentation around the tablet experience.

  

  Parker Harris
  • Work
  • Experience
  • Design

• When I was happily married and found myself pregnant, I just thought that this would be just the next, normal chapter. I was absolutely thrilled. So what a surprise it was when it turned out to be the hardest thing I've ever done.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Done
  • Myself
  • Thought

• I wanted it not to be true. I wanted it not to be her plane. I wanted it - I wanted, if it was her plane, to have somehow survived because she was in the back of the airplane. But we know that doesn't happen, not with those sorts of things.

  

  Ted Olson
  • She
  • True
  • Know

• Women who insist on having the same options as men would do well to consider the option of being the strong, silent type.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Men
  • Women
  • Strong

• Things don't get any easier by putting them off.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham

• The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to advertising copy.

  

  Louis Kronenberger
  • Life
  • America
  • Poetry

• Who would have thought around 1900 that in fifty years time we would know so much more and understand so much less.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Time
  • Know
  • Understand

• Nowadays, they have more trouble packing hair dryers than baseball equipment.

  

  Bob Feller
  • Hair
  • Baseball

• It's tough for me to draw myself - usually way too self-critical.

  

  Jake Tapper

• Nebraskans have very strong opinions, but we sit down around a table and we solve our problems.

  

  Dave Heineman
  • Strong

• I don't think 'Shotgon Stories' or 'Take Shelter' have hopeless endings. I think there's hope in both those films, no matter how hard you have to search for it. It's there.

  

  Jeff Nichols
  • Hope
  • Search

• I don't really ever think about whether or not I like the characters I'm playing. I'm more into the minutiae of their behaviour or what they're doing in a certain scene.

  

  Mary-Louise Parker

• All I've ever wanted is a nice truck, and that's what I got.

  

  Cole Swindell
  • Nice
  • Truck

• What we can and should change is ourselves: our impatience, our egoism (including intellectual egoism), our sense of injury, our lack of love and forbearance. I regard every other attempt to change the world, even if it springs from the best intentions, as futile.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Change
  • Egoism
  • Lack Of Love

• The details of which candidate said what during a single televised debate in October 1960 could have given the electoral victory to Nixon instead of to Kennedy, but no details of who said what could have blocked the European conquest of Native Americans.

  

  Jared Diamond
  • Single
  • Victory
  • October

• I never feel like I have to hang on to the music. I don't expect that the music will go away. Ideas are the only thing I can point to that are permanent and fixed.

  

  Michael Nesmith The Monkees
  • Music
  • Ideas
  • Hang On

• I've obviously used fans - I wouldn't say all my life, because we couldn't afford them when I was young, but from my 20s and onwards we've had to use fans. And I've always loathed them. Everything about them. The way you adjust them, getting them at the angle you want. Carrying them. Cleaning them. The danger of putting your finger in them.

  

  James Dyson
  • Life
  • Cleaning

• You couldn't drop me! You never dropped me.

  

  Jake LaMotta