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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There are a lot of new opportunities that are poking their head up in my future. I've been very fortunate that way, but for right now, what I like is what I'm doing.
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Even amidst the violent attacks launched against us for months past, we call upon the sons of the Arab people dwelling in Israel to keep the peace and to play their part in building the State on the basis of full and equal citizenship and due representation in all its institutions, provisional and permanent.
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In the last thirty years, there has been a massive redistribution of wealth. Unfortunately, it's gone in the wrong direction. ... All that money that has gone from the middle class to the top 1%, I think it should start coming back to the people who need it the most.
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The world is getting smaller and smaller every day. We cannot find ourselves dependent on somebody who is untrustworthy.
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Life is so crowded with every day. It takes great effort to step aside and just watch and think.
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I'm having the time of my life and the fact that I'm still working - how lucky can you get? I'm 90 years old and still able to work as much as I do. That's a privilege.
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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.
