Jake LaMotta Quotes

I fought Sugar Ray Robinson so many times, it's a wonder I don't have diabetes.

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• I want to be here for a long time, so I am going to do everything I have to do to be here. And I want to walk my daughter down the aisle and give her away to somebody some day. I want to make sure I am still here to make sure my two young sons become men.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Time
  • Men
  • Long

• Every man prefers to look at a well-shaped woman instead of a rubber ball.

  

  Katarina Witt
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Look

• I love entertaining and doing Martha Stewart stuff.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Love
  • Doing
  • Entertaining

• I've been doing stand-up since I was 15 years old.

  

  Hal Sparks
  • Up
  • Years
  • Doing

• One person I've always wanted to work with who would be an amazing guest star would be James Earl Jones.

  

  Nancy McKeon
  • Work
  • Amazing
  • Star

• Skid Row would probably be my favorite Jersey band.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • Band
  • Favorite
  • Jersey

• You can't make a living as a playwright. You can barely scrape by.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • You
  • Living
  • Playwright

• If there is one thing that makes me unique, it's that I riff a lot.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Me
  • Unique
  • One Thing

• I don't get far enough into a boring book to hate it.

  

  Garry Wills
  • Book
  • Hate
  • Enough

• I've met Bob Dylan. We did one of those non-handshake handshakes. I was with all guys, and he shook hands with all of them, and then they said, 'And this is Kate,' and I put my hand out, and he didn't put his out. And then I took my hand away, and he put his out. It was one of those. We finally did shake. And then I fainted!

  

  Kate Moss
  • Hand
  • Hands
  • Said

• People say America is exceptional. I agree, but it's not the complexion of our skin or the twists in our DNA that make us unique. America is exceptional because we were founded upon the notion that everyone should be free to pursue life, liberty, and happiness.

  

  Rand Paul
  • People
  • Life
  • America

• There are those who seem to feel they have no choice about being jerks in the present because they had a crappy childhood. Well, that's the definition of childhood; nobody gets out alive. You either get stronger from what you experience, or you turn it into a crutch, an excuse, a dodge.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Experience
  • Present
  • Childhood

• I think there's always been singers like that and i've done my fair share of cheese as well.

  

  Marc Almond Soft Cell
  • Done
  • Think
  • Always

• I remember straightening my hair because I wanted to be like everybody else, and now the fact that anybody would emulate what I do? It's just funny.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Remember
  • Funny
  • Hair

• To go back means defeat.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Back
  • Go
  • Defeat

• Being able to laugh is sexy in a man or woman.

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Sexy

• Tanning is tricky, because a lot of people just look orange.

  

  Laura Linney
  • People
  • Look
  • Orange

• The project of Ralph Ellison's 'Invisible Man' is exactly that: to assert the beautiful, bountiful, chaotic complexity of one black American male. And, by extension, all black American males.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • American
  • Beautiful
  • Man

• One of the best ways of showing pluralism in action is for people to do service together, and that has so many benefits.

  

  Eboo Patel
  • Action
  • Benefits
  • Pluralism

• The question of place and climate is most closely related to the question of nutrition. Nobody is free to live everywhere; and whoever has to solve great problems that challenge all his strength actually has a very restricted choice in this matter. The influence of climate on our metabolism, its retardation, its acceleration, goes so far that a mistaken choice of place and climate can not only estrange a man from his task but can actually keep it from him: he never gets to see it.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Question
  • Choice
  • Climate

• My whole family, my father's side, there was a great deal of depression, and my mother's side as well.

  

  Dorothy Hamill
  • Great
  • Family
  • Mother

• Tell me, do you think I'm going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.

  

  Paul Cezanne
  • Wonder
  • Mad

• I think this is when most people give up on their stories. They come out of college wanting to change the world, wanting to get married, wanting to have kids and change the way people buy office supplies. But they get into the middle and discover it was harder than they thought. They can't see the distant shore anymore, and they wonder if their paddling is moving them forward. None of the trees behind them are getting smaller and none of the trees ahead are getting bigger. They take it out on their spouses, and they go looking for an easier story.

  

  Donald Miller
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• I fought Sugar Ray Robinson so many times, it's a wonder I don't have diabetes.

  

  Jake LaMotta
  • Wonder