Jake LaMotta Quotes
I been in jail twice. The first time was reform school: they got me for carrying burglar's tools, something like that. The morals charge was a frame-up.

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We are seeing at the Republican National Committee a phenomenon that is worth noting this week; maybe today, maybe tomorrow, maybe Wednesday, we will have a million first time donors since the president took office.
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I had a great AP U.S. History teacher in Pittsburgh. We still exchange Christmas cards. She was the first teacher who said I was a good writer - and I'd never heard that before. And so I remember that, and I remember that level of loving the material and really loving writing about it.
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I think you have to do certain things in the pilot to get your network's attention - to break through... So maybe you push a little further in the first show.
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People deal with models like they are children. They think they can pull one over on you. It's actually funny. I'm always like, I'm about to pull something on you, and you're so focused on thinking I'm dumb, you're not even going to know.
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I'll never do a film because it's a massive budget and I'm gonna get lots of publicity for it and it will bring something else.
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War is the unfolding of miscalculations.
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Man, in his animal capacity, is qualified to subsist in every climate.
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One of the few benefits of being a journalist is that you're not in the Army.
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In previous generations, there was purpose; you had to die, but there was God, and literature and culture would go on. Now, there is no God, and our species is imminently doomed, so there is no purpose. We get up, raise families, have bank accounts, fix our teeth and everything else. But really, there is utterly no purpose except to be alive.
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I have not one shred of anger in my heart against Netanyahu or his wife.
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When you're rich you don't write checks.
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People ask if I walk around and pinch myself. Yes, I do.
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There's nothing wrong with being fired.
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My writing books with positive gay characters has come more out of anger than anything else: anger at not having been able to find honest, accurate books about people like myself as a teen, books that show we're as diverse as straight people and that we can lead happy, healthy, productive lives just as straight people can.
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Having a place out of the city is a shortcut toward the mental reset I need.
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The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship.
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It's nice that there are movies and songs about romance - it's what motivates us as human beings. I'm all for being brainwashed by rom-coms.
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The living nightmare for a red state NASCAR driver would be a gay French driver.
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I was going from Furman to the University of Georgia. I transferred to play football.
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Quitting Facebook would be like partially erasing myself. Quitting Twitter would constitute further erasure. Pretty soon, I'd be invisible. I was never on Instagram or Tumblr, which I guess means I never completely existed in the first place.
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The first time my mum and dad went to the theatre was at my drama school in third year.
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Every time I am not playing, I am training harder to keep myself fit.
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Time. There is much time left and lots of life seasons. There is much to see, to do, and to be.
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I been in jail twice. The first time was reform school: they got me for carrying burglar's tools, something like that. The morals charge was a frame-up.