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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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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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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Remember above all that mental stability comes by examining the contents of the mind, not by avoidence.
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When Van Halen started out, there was no path to fame. We just played what we liked. Even today it always comes down to the simplicity of rock and roll.
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Patriotism at the expense of another nation is as wicked as racism at the expense of another race. . . Let us resolve to be patriots always, nationalists never. Let us love our country, but pledge allegiance to the earth and to the flora and fauna and human life that it supports - one planet indivisible, with clean air,... soil and water; with liberty, justice and peace for all.
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Because I was suspicious of the traditional Christian church, I tended to tar them all with the same brush. That was a mistake, because there are righteous people working in a whole rainbow of belief systems - from Hasidic Jews to right-wing Bible Belters to charismatic Catholics.
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Honestly, what keeps me grounded is my faith and my value system.
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when man determined to destroy himself he picked the was of shall and finding only why smashed it into because.
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I hate greens. I hate vegetables, but greens - especially in a smoothie - are a great way for a big kid like me to hide my vegetables into the meal.
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Counting amateur fights, I have over a thousand bouts.
