Jake LaMotta Quotes

There's no pensions for old prize fighters.

Jake LaMotta

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: athlete
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 10, 1922 - September 19, 2017

Topics

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Normally, things are viewed in these little segmented boxes. There's classical, and then there's jazz; romantic, and then there's baroque. I find that very dissatisfying. I was trying to find the thread that connects one type of music - one type of musician - to another, and to follow that thread in some kind of natural, evolutionary way.

Jerry Lee Lewis

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My favorite genre of movies growing up was the romantic comedy.

Jennifer Finnigan

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If you break 100, watch your golf. If you break 80, watch your business.

Joey Adams

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Even in China. Children there, next to the Great Wall, who had never seen Mickey Mouse responded. So the studio did have that skill to communicate with images.

John Hench

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I've been talking about the centrality of libraries in our information society for a while now.

Matthew Lesko

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I used to spend a lot of time just thinking about myself, thinking that the party started when I showed up.

Matthew Perry

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When you think about great teams, The Beatles and the Pythons immediately spring to mind. The Pythons were as much a part of their time as The Beatles.

Robyn Hitchcock

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I don't think I can create anything of lasting value unless it comes from the heart.

Rodney Crowell

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Surely wisdom will come as we listen to learn from children, parents, partners, neighbors, Church leaders, and the Lord.

Russell M. Nelson

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Nothing is accidental in the universe - this is one of my Laws of Physics - except the entire universe itself, which is Pure Accident, pure divinity.

Joyce Carol Oates

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I am more than just a label. Why are people so driven to labeling where we fall on the sexual spectrum?

Chirlane McCray

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If you play a role, you want to familiarize yourself with that person's world. If I were playing an airline pilot or a doctor, I'd probably want to hang out with a doctor or an airplane pilot for a while, ask some questions. You don't get to hang out the kings. They don't help consult on movies. So your resources are, by necessity, secondary.

Colin Firth

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