Jake LaMotta Quotes
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In the beginning, I didn't dance that much and stuff.
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The whole world is starting to realize that it was the most unwise thing for our society to have ignored women power, to run the society with male priorities.
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I don't like controversy.
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The fact that Western Muslims are free means that they can have enormous impact. But it would be wrong to claim that we are imposing our ways on the West. New ideas are now coming from the West. To be traditional is not so much a question of protecting ourselves as to be traditionalist in principle.
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I got beat up up in Texas because my bootlaces were the wrong color.
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I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.
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I think of myself as a performance artist. I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.
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If you can't play guitar and sing in Nashville, you might as well just be a construction worker.
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Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression, because power, real power, comes from our conviction which produces action, uncompromising action.
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I think that if you haven't been to the grocery store in a really long time, it's really easy to get very out of touch.
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I was brought up on art. My father thought I had a great hand at art and sent me to art school. But he did not want me to become a photographer.
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Some of the most significant advances in molecular biology have relied upon the methodology of genetics. The same statement may be made concerning our understanding of immunological phenomena.
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Horses and horsepower alike are about status and being cool.
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That $27,000 that a young player will now get just for making the main draw at the Australian Open is huge. It can set them up for a couple of months which at that level you really do need that kind of help. It sounds like a lot of money, but when you're travelling the world trying to make it as a tennis player, it doesn't last long.
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The idea that somebody is going to come in and make your debt go away and all be well for the future is really a fantasy.
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Making comic adaptations means making a lot of choices - you need to adjust the pacing, the dialogue, and in this case, a lot of the cultural references.
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I love watching Hollywood movies - I just don't know if I'd be happy doing a 'Jurassic Park.'
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I have had to come to terms with the fact that I am hooked on Twitter. Not good.
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There is no 'right' way to begin a novel, but for me, plot has to wait. The character comes first.
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Presidents and speakers for over 100 years had tried to pass affordable care for all Americans. It was challenged over and over. The Supreme Court declared it constitutional.
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In these English farms, if anywhere, one might see life steadily and see it whole, group in one vision its transitoriness and its eternal youth, connect - connect without bitterness until all men are brothers.
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A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
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By judging others, you make yourself easy to judge.
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There's no pensions for old prize fighters.
