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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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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Remember above all that mental stability comes by examining the contents of the mind, not by avoidence.
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This life that I've led has been really well suited for me.
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One of the main uses of a home is to stay in it, when one is too weak and spiritless for conforming, without effort, to the ways of other houses.
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Filming in India was one big adventure. For 'The Cheetah Girls', we were in Mumbai for two weeks, then Rajasthan for six weeks. Every day after shooting, I would hop into a rickshaw and start exploring the city. I even learned a bit of Hindi. It's such an amazing place to visit.
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There is no right religion, and no one can prove that there is.
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I feel more content with what I wear. I always feel confident. I shop for my age and my body.
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Counting amateur fights, I have over a thousand bouts.
