Jake LaMotta Quotes
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I suppose illustration tends to live in the streets, rather than in the hermetically sealed atmosphere of the museum, and consequently it has come to be taken less seriously.
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I learned more about myself by being an RN than anything else I've ever done.
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My mom is from Cuba, my dad is from Spain, and I grew up in Miami. So there's maybe a little more flair in me than typical Silicon Valley types.
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I usually get my stuff from people who promised somebody else that they would keep it a secret.
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I'm crazy about jewelry; swimwear and jewelry.
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The more activity around Chicago-based companies, and the more success that entrepreneurs have in Chicago, the better we as venture capitalists in Chicago will do.
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A person who has been punished is not less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.
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Professionally, I really respect Natalie Portman – her career choices, actually going for stuff with substance.
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I was in law school at the University of Kentucky and realized I didn't really like law school, so I took a creative writing course for something different.
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As I've gotten less righteous, less pedagogic, I have become more loving of the artificiality, the art form, the imitation of life in film.
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What I enjoy most is that every day I get to play a new character.
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For me, the idea of curating can be expanded. Curating science, curating art, music and theater and performance and not only bring those things into art but bring art into those areas.
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You discover yourself through the research of your work.
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We can not wait until we have enough trained people willing to work at a teacher's salary and under conditions imposed upon teachers in order to improve what happens in the classroom.
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I wanted to be what my high-school civics and history teacher thought of as a good American. That automatically involved taking an interest in government.
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If there was ever a man born to be a hitter it was me.
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The tensions between authority and the people need to be heard, especially when they are suffering and they can't eat.
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It's very hard to self-motivate without someone standing over you snarling, ready to hurl the chalk at your head at the slightest slackening.
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I hate to sound self absorbed, but I'm just going to cast out this pearl of wisdom, if I could give the whole world cancer and kill them and be the last man on earth it would be a sign that god loves me especially.
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Texas is as alien as Mars.
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I was just the perfect person to play the Mini-Me character.
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After a few weeks of this she'd spend a whole day weeping, beating at herself as if on fire.
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Just once, I would like there to be something special about being the kid stuck in the middle.
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Counting amateur fights, I have over a thousand bouts.
