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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The Cox Committee found that the Chinese military acquired many of the technologies over the past seven years, although many of them had been targeted for acquisition for more than a quarter century.
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My personal mission has always been to empower people to be creative. But the Holy Grail of a tinkerer is to make something that makes something.
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You have to really believe not only in yourself; you have to believe that the world is actually worth your sacrifices.
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I got a brand new flugelhorn today in this gorgeous case, it's beautiful.
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I did my first interview in 1995 and was asked about my private life. I said, 'Why would I tell you? I don't see the logic in anyone knowing that about me. For whose sake? Nobody wins.'
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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.
