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

  

  Xavier Niel
  • Giving
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  • 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
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  • Race
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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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• As we deliver airplanes and we enable global travel and global cargo delivery, it provides overall economic growth around the world as well.

  

  Dennis Muilenburg
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• You make mistakes, but I don't have any regrets. I'm the kind of person who takes responsibility for it and deals with it. I learn from everything I do. I work very hard, I have so many things going on in my life. Get to know me and see who I am.

  

  Kim Kardashian
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• People were always like, 'Oh my God, you're going to be working with your girlfriend? Are you freaking out? Is that going to, like, destroy your relationship?' I think it emboldened the relationship.

  

  Jeff Baena
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• I think what makes 'Jeopardy!' special is that, among all the quiz and game shows out there, ours tends to encourage learning.

  

  Alex Trebek
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  • Learning
  • Jeopardy

• My dad was never married. He was kind of a rolling stone. But he was never disrespectful. At the same time, even though he had women in his life when I was a kid, there wasn't any consistency.

  

  Kevin Hart
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  • Time
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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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  • Kids
  • Night