Jake LaMotta Quotes
All my life I made a living out of hurting people. Now, I make a living out of making people laugh.
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Fitness, defending, the mental stuff - those were all weaknesses of mine. And I turned those into strengths.
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To be honest, I am very worried about the possibility of the U.K. leaving the E.U. But of course, like in the case of Catalonia, we have to respect the right to decide of the British people on a relationship that part of the Brits consider is not satisfying enough.
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The important thing to remember is war does not progress linearly. The future course of events is going to be very difficult to predict with a high degree of precision.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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I'm the type of person, I have to study to get an A on the test.
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I feel that after all those horrible reviews and jokes, I wasn't crazy all these years to stand up for the music I believe in. This album has proven that somewhere in the human race, the human heart is still racing and breaking and I am so grateful.
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I did almost two years on 'One Life to Live,' so I was thinking, 'Oh yeah, I'm an actor now.'
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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The thing that can get kind of annoying is, when you travel so much, how hectic it gets. I was being interviewed once - it was a phone interview - and they said, 'Where are you right now?' and I didn't know where I was.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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As a girl who was raised on the idea that we should give back to our community as much as possible, I believe that we have more power than we think when it comes to making change.
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We cannot therefore say that mental acts contain a cognitive as well as a conative element.
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The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
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Because Islam in its original form was tough and hard, not weak and pliable.
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If I can help a kid feel more comfortable in their skin because they're struggling with maybe the things I struggled with in high school, that's great.
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And also I didn't want my future to be just sitting in a room and be imprisoned in my four walls and just cooking and giving birth to children. I didn't want to see my life in that way.
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The idea of doing a production of 'Carousel' that doesn't feel like it's stuck in the 1950s really intrigues me.
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For 'Hidalgo,' I just spent as much time around horses as I could, which made sense.
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Words are sacred. If you get the right ones in the right order you can nudge the world a little.
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I feel like a feminist is gender equality.
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Eating is one of the great pleasures of life.
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I'm the most mellow person offstage. I think it's just, going onstage lets me get out some frustration that I'm too shy to do in real life. Instead of doing it in private, I'd rather do it in front of 1,000 people who've paid $25 to see me lose my mind.
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My mom, ever since we were little girls, has really always rallied us together - my sister, our friends - to instill in us the fact that other people don't have what we have, so we have to be really thankful for things.
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All my life I made a living out of hurting people. Now, I make a living out of making people laugh.
