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.

  

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni
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• If you just storyboard something, you've already planned it, and you're stuck in the limitations of your imagination.

  

  Daniel Espinosa
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• I have seven children by six different mothers. Maybe success was too good to me.

  

  Eric Lynn Wright
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• Novelty is always welcome but talking pictures are just a fad.

  

  Irving Thalberg
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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.

  

  Waris Dirie
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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.

  

  Jacki Weaver
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• 'Vanity' means worthlessness.

  

  Vanity
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• Sleep is the best meditation.

  

  Dalai Lama
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• Some musicians I know are incredible fathers. Like Keith Richards. A fantastic dad.

  

  Jack Bruce Cream
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• No one connected intimately with a writer has any appreciation of his temperament, except to think him overdoing everything.

  

  Zane Grey
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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.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
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• Leaving sex to the feminists is like letting your dog vacation at the taxidermist.

  

  Camille Paglia
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• I am a big music nerd.

  

  Olivia Wilde
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• Giving only 50% of your fortune is not enough.

  

  Xavier Niel
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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.

  

  Edna St. Vincent Millay
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• If you're not careful, you can fall into a destructive cycle of self-pity.

  

  Victoria Osteen
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• I always have the impression that I write the same book.

  

  Patrick Modiano
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• I want to be like Robin Williams, really. It's all the different characters he does, all the different voices.

  

  Karen Gillan
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• The Sims is an escapist vehicle for people who want to escape to where they already are, which is why I thought this game was made precisely for me.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
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• We need to remove unworthy from our vocabulary and replace it with hope and work.

  

  Marvin J. Ashton
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• If you subscribe to the idea that #‎ addiction is a disease, it is startling to see how many of these children - paranoid, anxious, bruised, tremulous, withered, in some cases psychotic - are seriously ill, slowly dying. We'd never allow such a scene if these kids had any other disease. They would be in a hospital, not on the streets.

  

  David Sheff
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• There are good examples of companies - Coca-Cola is one - that invested before there was a huge market in countries, and I think that ended up playing out to their benefit for decades to come.

  

  Mark Zuckerberg
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• It's fun to be able to dress up from time to time and pretend that I don't wear cleats, a T-shirt, and shorts every day.

  

  Kelley O'Hara
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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.

  

  Jake LaMotta
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