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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Writing is literally transformative. When we read, we are changed. When we write, we are changed. It's neurological. To me, this is a kind of magic.
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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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Skid Row would probably be my favorite Jersey band.
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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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I once thought I would never be able to kick a ball again.
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I consider fitness, diet, and beauty to be essential to a balanced self.
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Anxiety in children is originally nothing other than an expression of the fact they are feeling the loss of the person they love.
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If someone says you're a reporter and doesn't want you to anchor then you wonder why you worked so hard at it.
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The Bible is big in my teaching. It's a wonder the ACLU didn't get after me pretty good. I really kept thinking they would. I took my boys to church. I took my football team to church. I only did it two times a year. Before I signed a kid, I'd write the parents and I'd tell that parent we were gong to take your son to church twice.
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I fought Sugar Ray Robinson so many times, it's a wonder I don't have diabetes.
