Jake LaMotta Quotes

When you're No. 1 contender for five years, and you know who's controlling things, you'll do something you're not proud of.

Jake LaMotta

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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You can always say that it was scarce dollars when Lewis and Clark wanted to go to the West Coast and explore the West. And people complained about it, I understand, from a reading of the history books.

John Glenn

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One of the great things about 'Girls' is that each of these characters really does represent a human being. There are definitely relatable aspects to all of these folks, and certainly within my close friend group, those personalities very much exist.

Andrew Rannells

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There has never been an unexpectedly short debugging period in the history of computers.

Steven Levy

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Now I'm way into suits that I can put on whether I took a shower or not, and wear barefoot and paint my toes black or whatever color the suit is. It's very cool to wear suits like that. Roll up the sleeves and just say yee-haw.

Steven Tyler

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I've always been genuinely interested in the spirit world. I've seen things I will never talk about because I'd be a fool to. You can't lay out that world in words.

Lizz Wright

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My school had a radio show, and when I first decided to become a rapper, I was on there, and I would, like, freestyle.

Juice Wrld

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To me, the process of art is very much a process of translation, of borrowing.

Julia Holter

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Every unfortunate event does not give rise to lawsuit.

Judge Mills Lane

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Army: A body of men assembled to rectify the mistakes of the diplomats.

Josephus Daniels

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I'd always fought against presenting radio really, because my father was a radio DJ in Australia. He's just recently retired. And I kind of didn't want to follow in his footsteps. But I suppose, as we all find as we become older, to some extent we do all become our parents.

Jarvis Cocker

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Any time I hear certain songs I put in a movie, I have to not listen to them anymore because I associate them with that movie. They take on that association rather than the association I had when I first heard them. So it's kinda bittersweet to put a song in a movie, honestly.

Jonathan Levine

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When it comes to the environment in our own backyard, we understand it far better than anybody in Washington D.C.

Cory Gardner

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