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
  • Life
  • Work
  • Feeling

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

  

  Daniel Espinosa
  • You
  • Imagination
  • Planned

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

  

  Eric Lynn Wright
  • Good
  • Different
  • Children

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

  

  Irving Thalberg
  • Always
  • Talking
  • Welcome

• 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
  • World
  • Wonder
  • Recognise

• 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
  • People
  • Children
  • Love

• 'Vanity' means worthlessness.

  

  Vanity
  • Means
  • Vanity
  • Worthlessness

• Sleep is the best meditation.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Best
  • Sleep
  • Dreams

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

  

  Jack Bruce Cream
  • Know
  • Dad
  • Like

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

  

  Zane Grey
  • Think
  • Appreciation
  • Him

• 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
  • Time
  • Love
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• Leaving sex to the feminists is like letting your dog vacation at the taxidermist.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Sex
  • Dog
  • Leaving

• I am a big music nerd.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Music
  • Nerd

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

  

  Xavier Niel
  • Giving
  • Enough
  • Fortune

• 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
  • Self
  • Race
  • Actions

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

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • You
  • Fall
  • Self-pity

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

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Book
  • Write
  • Same

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

  

  Karen Gillan
  • Different
  • Want
  • Like

• I don't exercise.

  

  Jackee Harry
  • Exercise

• I still don't think like that. Because of Benazir, nobody else [in her party] was thinking about leadership. This position comes about only because of the vacuum that was created with her death.

  

  Asif Ali Zardari
  • Thinking
  • Death
  • Party

• Everything in nature is not just a straight up. It's an S-curve. It arises for a while until it hits some physical limitation, and then it plateaus again.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Up
  • Nature
  • Everything

• Many of the greatest Cuban boxing champions since the revolution triumphed on the island resisted the temptation to leave Cuba and, in some cases, defied any suggestion they were tempted in the first place. Most famously, Teofilo Stevenson rejected multi-million dollar offers to leave his island to fight Muhammad Ali.

  

  Brin-Jonathan Butler
  • Revolution
  • Boxing
  • Temptation

• Time is movement and cannot be checked. Time passes us and rushes on, and we remind behind, old and crumbled. But we are juvenated again and again by static and continuous movement. Let us be transformed! Let us be static! Let us be against stagnation and for static!

  

  Jean Tinguely
  • Time

• 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
  • Time
  • Kids
  • Night