Jake LaMotta Quotes
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At a young age, I had to give up a lot of things, like being able to hang out with my friends.
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You don't move just because you want to go from this point to that point - the body has to be using the words as well as you vocally use the words.
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It's more important to try to do something for the crores of poor people of my country.
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Go to the young conductors who are not making it, and you will hear how we shouldn't push ourselves or sell ourselves, how they don't have the right connections and the right opportunities. Well, you can be sure they've had the opportunities.
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Buddhism talks about the possibility of transforming greed, hatred, and delusion. But sometimes need turns into greed.
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Early on, if I was alone two three nights in a row, I'd start writing poems about suicide.
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The ocean is the lifeblood of our world. If we were to lose our fish that we appreciate so much by overfishing; or if we were to lose some of our favorite beaches to overbuilding and pollution, then how would we feel? It's become a case of not knowing what you've got until it's gone.
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If you do your research on hot springs all over the world, they're usually places of peace. People, even in warring nations and so forth, they'll go and live in peace together around the hot springs, which were always considered medicinal. I firmly believe in water therapy.
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'SpongeBob SquarePants' is a great show, and it centers on a character that is courageously nice. Why is SpongeBob interesting? It's because he has passion. He has a passion for chasing jellyfish.
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There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.
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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
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I did grow up in a very small town, and I only had a couple of people in my year at school. There were a lot of kids to play with - maybe not the same age, but there was always someone around.
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I feel honored that the Hispanic community in the United States have embraced me. I'm really happy and honored to receive their support.
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I always have to just be myself. Anything else, I'm not happy, and it comes out musically.
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Something on mainstream radio is very in your face with the vocals. I tried that, and it just doesn't feel like Washed Out. It's got to have that haziness to it.
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We want freedom for our country, but not at the expense or exploitation of others, not us to degrade other countries…I want the freedom of my country so that other countries may learn something from my free country so that the resources of my country might be utilized for the benefit of mankind.
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You are not responsible for anyone who stubbornly chooses to ruin his own life.
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Be not unwilling in what thou doest, neither selfish nor unadvised nor obstinate; let not over-refinement deck out thy thought; be not wordy nor a busybody.
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The President has so much good publicity potential that hasn't been exploited. He should just sit down one day and make a list of all the things that people are embarrassed to do that they shouldn't be embarrassed to do, and then do them all on television.
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But even after the first week, when Hart got out of the presidential race because of the Washington Post's threat to reveal a long-term relationship Hart had apparently been having with a prominent Washington woman, the media continued to embellish my past.
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The woman sees, I suppose, and the man does not.
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If we get our salvation, we shall have to pass by him Joseph Smith; if we enter our glory, it will be through the authority he has received. We cannot get around him.
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The poet presents his thoughts festively, on the carriage of rhythm: usually because they could not walk.
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I fought Sugar Ray six times. Pound for pound the greatest fighter who ever lived.
