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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There's all kinds of those moments in your life where either through a weird set of circumstances, or a song you hear, or a smell you smell, or one person says something totally out of the context without the meaning that you assigned to it, but you snap back to the way you were when you were 14 or 15. We all deal with that.
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My life is a series of things that just happen.
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There is no singer I can think of who can touch Ella Fitzgerald. And when Billie Holiday sings, she's merciless about it. Her voice has just this immaculate sadness - even in happy songs, there was something that was so broken about it.
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For me, as an actress, being a dancer has helped me. I've done it with my feet bloody.
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If people should ever start to do only what is necessary millions would die of hunger.
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People get in auto accidents, they're paralyzed for life. I got hurt worse getting married.
