Jenifer Lewis Quotes
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I'm more a fan of my fans than I think they are of me!
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I think as long as I have a creative outlet, I'm happy.
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I started at the age of 8 and have been lucky to be still working.
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But my point is these Civil War songs were gruesome. The hatred that's so bad in this country today, and for the past 10 or 15 years, bad as it is, is nothing compared to the kind of things people would write down and sing back in the Civil War.
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I'm probably the wealthiest Indian in America.
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I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it - but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
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If I'm not in shape, it feels like something is wrong. If I haven't been able to get to class for a while or I've been sick, I don't feel complete. It doesn't feel like the electricity is making its connections.
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Let's face it, the great comedians now that are handicapped in the looks department are tremendous writers.
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The real reason why people are going with digital is that it's extraordinarily mobile, and it's cheaper, and it has a great image, and you just can't beat it at night. It's pulling in variations of colors; it's pulling in lights from 40 miles away - a candle would be seen.
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Never judge a stranger by his clothes.
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Brazil is on my side.
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I am the face of a refugee. I was once a refugee. I was with my family in exile.
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Dance is my passion.
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Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprang up.
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I'm just drawing it now. It's totally revolting. I'm sure you'll love it.
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To retire is to die.
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There's been people who've rapped and produced - like Kanye - but I don't feel like on the rapping side there's ever been a producer who can rap as good as I think I can rap.
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Beauty will not come at the call of a legislature, nor will it repeat in England or America its history in Greece. It will come, as always, unannounced, and spring up between the feet of brave and earnest men.
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I hate this idea that there are some people who have a right to express their suffering and others who don't, that there are those in this hierarchy of pain who own it more than you do.
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Whoever thinks his friend more important than his country, I rate him nowhere.
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There is a gap in my work from '84 to 2002, 18 years where I stopped writing. I was working at fiction and other things and starting a school and getting married and starting a family, but I wasn't writing poetry for the better part of 15 years.
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The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it, into which a young gentleman should be enter'd by degrees, as he can bear it; and the earlier the better, so he be in safe and skillful hands to guide him.
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Brandy is the great cause of destruction for the aborigines of America.
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If you don't love it, don't touch it.
