Jake LaMotta Quotes
I fought from the time I was eight years old, sometimes three, four fights a night. We did it to eat, and we did it because we were just tough kids.
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Gut feeling is all about the experiences that you have had in your life. It is about being in difficult scenarios, knowing what worked, what did not work, and then taking a decision.
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If you just storyboard something, you've already planned it, and you're stuck in the limitations of your imagination.
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I have seven children by six different mothers. Maybe success was too good to me.
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Novelty is always welcome but talking pictures are just a fad.
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Sometimes I wonder where I am from. I am either way ahead or I come from another world. I don't recognise this world.
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I love gay Mardi Gras in Sydney, which is a big parade, a big march that thousands and thousands of people participate in. And there's one little group... well it's not little, it's got hundreds of people marching, and they're all very sweet, middle-aged and elderly people who are the parents of gay children who are out and proud.
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'Vanity' means worthlessness.
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Sleep is the best meditation.
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Some musicians I know are incredible fathers. Like Keith Richards. A fantastic dad.
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No one connected intimately with a writer has any appreciation of his temperament, except to think him overdoing everything.
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Eighty-five per cent of the crowd is going to fall in love with me - they're going to feel it, wow. But fifteen per cent are going to think, 'This guy is obnoxious.' I spend enormous time with them - every negative review of 'Crush It!' on Amazon has a response from me - and I can probably bring back ten of the fifteen.
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Leaving sex to the feminists is like letting your dog vacation at the taxidermist.
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I am a big music nerd.
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Giving only 50% of your fortune is not enough.
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We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.
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If you're not careful, you can fall into a destructive cycle of self-pity.
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I always have the impression that I write the same book.
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I want to be like Robin Williams, really. It's all the different characters he does, all the different voices.
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I have a feeling that books are a lot like people - they change as you age, so that some books that you hated in high school will strike you with the force of a revelation when you're older.
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Traditional performance reviews have passed their sell-by date. Big time. There's research showing that roughly two-thirds of performance appraisals have either no effect - or a negative effect! - on employee performance.
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It's time we permanently repeal the tax on possessions that people leave to their children.
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I'm not to eager to play tennis in my spare time. I'm more interested in doing gym work and stuff like that. We have a lot of schools and courts around where I live, so if I really want to play, I don't need to go too far.
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I'm not really sure where it comes from, but every time I meet someone who says 'I really want to be an entrepreneur' but has no idea what they want to do, I really just think: 'This person is totally aimless.'
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I fought from the time I was eight years old, sometimes three, four fights a night. We did it to eat, and we did it because we were just tough kids.
