Jake LaMotta Quotes
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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.
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Every man prefers to look at a well-shaped woman instead of a rubber ball.
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I love entertaining and doing Martha Stewart stuff.
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I've been doing stand-up since I was 15 years old.
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One person I've always wanted to work with who would be an amazing guest star would be James Earl Jones.
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You can't make a living as a playwright. You can barely scrape by.
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If there is one thing that makes me unique, it's that I riff a lot.
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I don't get far enough into a boring book to hate it.
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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!
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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.
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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.
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I think there's always been singers like that and i've done my fair share of cheese as well.
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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.
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To go back means defeat.
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Being able to laugh is sexy in a man or woman.
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Tanning is tricky, because a lot of people just look orange.
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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.
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Technical knowledge has now become an integral aspect of the Iranian psyche.
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Before you can change your industry positively, you need to understand how to go about doing so.
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When we were associated with eBay, it was surprising to me how many merchants were very reluctant to work with PayPal because we were accessing their data and their information, and they felt in some way, shape, or form they were competing with eBay.
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This is a dream as old as America itself: give me a piece of land to call my own, a little town where everyone knows my name.
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I'd always felt a man should marry later in life.
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I wonder why progress looks so much like destruction.
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I fought Sugar Ray Robinson so many times, it's a wonder I don't have diabetes.
