Jake LaMotta Quotes
People get in auto accidents, they're paralyzed for life. I got hurt worse getting married.
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My mom really inspired me. She has always taught me it's not about us, it's about what we can give back.
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For me, songwriting starts with a melody. When a musician plays a chord progression, either the words and vocal melody come to me, or they don't. That's how I determine who to write with. It works, or it doesn't.
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I'm not a power person. I like everyone to be on an equal footing.
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I love to write.
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It is very wrong to sleep in your make-up, but when you wake up the next morning, I think it looks very good.
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I've been living. I've been doing the writing thing. I've been being the family man. I've been traveling the world. I been to, like, 18 cities last year. I've been getting my thoughts together, trying to figure out what's going on with hip-hop itself.
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I received a D.Sc. from the University of London in 1992.
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I found it peculiar that those who wanted to take military action could - with 100 per cent certainty - know that the weapons existed and turn out to have zero knowledge of where they were.
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
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Jordan has to show the Arab world that there's another way of doing things. We're a monarchy, yes, but if we can show democracy that leads to a two-, three-, four-party system - left, right and center - in a couple of years' time, then the Muslim Brotherhood will no longer be something to contend with.
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I have managed to infuriate the bank bosses; acquire a fatwa from the revolutionary guards of the trades union movement; frighten the 'Daily Telegraph' with a progressive graduate payment; and upset very rich people who are trying to dodge British taxes. I must be doing something right.
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There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment.
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I'm really looking forward to working with Meghan Trainor because that's in the pipeline, and I'm eager for it to really happen.
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And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.
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Because Islam in its original form was tough and hard, not weak and pliable.
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I had a very modest upbringing.
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Everybody has a story... and a scream.
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To Americans, English manners are far more frightening than none at all.
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Actively deciding to give to causes that move you deeply is far more fulfilling than the momentary gratification derived from signing a check and mailing it to a nonprofit about which you know little more than what's on the brochure they sent you.
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Man only plays when in the full meaning of the word he is a man, and he is only completely a man when he plays.
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Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hand of the Angel of the Resurrection.
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Perfect preparation prevents piss-poor performance.
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People get in auto accidents, they're paralyzed for life. I got hurt worse getting married.
