Jerry Lewis Quotes

Commercial television has underestimated the intelligence of the public.

Jerry Lewis

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• I look forward to their convention and look forward to hearing the President talk about what he will do for the next four years. He hasn't done it up to this point.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • Up
  • Done
  • Look

• I was never a big fan of horror. I got into it making these films, but I don't ever see myself doing slasher movies. The kind of horror film I like is 'The Shining.' I don't really like slashers, but I love thrillers with tension.

  

  Caity Lotz
  • Love
  • Myself
  • Movies

• Street and park trees provide tremendous benefits to cities.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Benefits
  • Street
  • Trees

• Anyone who is secure about herself shouldn't be threatened by the ads I do.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • Secure
  • Threatened
  • Herself

• As a young physician in the mid-'80s, caring for people who had contracted H.I.V., I lost two of my patients to suicide at a time when the virus was doing very little harm to them. I have always thought of them as having been killed by a metaphor, by the burden of secrecy and shame associated with the disease.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • People
  • Time
  • Lost

• If you desire ease, forsake learning.

  

  Nagarjuna
  • You
  • Desire
  • Learning

• If I had my choice, I'd pick a song that tells a story every time. There is a great deal of pleasure in doing the vocal on a number that you can put feeling into.

  

  Vaughn Monroe
  • Time
  • Great
  • Song

• I'm trying to make all the characters change and grow, or regress.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • Trying
  • Change
  • Grow

• I liked that idea. Someone who's trying to perform herself and not succeeding.

  

  Maggie Gyllenhaal
  • Trying
  • Idea
  • Someone

• Hamm: Ah, the old questions, the old answers, there's nothing like them!

  

  Samuel Beckett

• In a sense the present work is to be regarded as a secondary-study of the work of a group of writers in the field of social theory. But the genus 'secondary study' comprises several species; of these an example of only one, and that perhaps not the best known, is to be found in these pages.

  

  Talcott Parsons
  • Work
  • Present
  • Study

• Michael Jackson was adamantly against drugs and alcohol, he was extremely straight-laced; I couldn’t even swear around him. Being with Michael brought me back to my innocence.

  

  Corey Feldman
  • Alcohol

• I admire Tebaldi's tone; it's beautiful - also some beautiful phrasing. Sometimes, I actually wish I had her voice.

  

  Maria Callas
  • Beautiful
  • Wish

• I still maintain several different outlets of artistry, like my music, photography, writing and all those things. I don't pigeonhole myself into one thing. I do all sorts of things, and that's so important to me.

  

  Jesse Johnson
  • Music
  • Different
  • Important

• Success isn't measured by the amount of people that watch you unless you allow it to be.

  

  Keegan-Michael Key
  • People
  • Success

• My parents were both born and raised in the Depression. They instilled great values about integrity and the importance of hard work, and I've taken that with me to every job.

  

  Mary Barra
  • Work
  • Great
  • Job

• Commuting in a wheelchair is not easy. I live in a very old part of Rome. These cobbles everywhere... terrible! In London, it is the same. Every pavement is uneven.

  

  Bernardo Bertolucci
  • Live

• #BlackLivesMatter was born online but now lives in street actions, in conversations in our homes, and in the dignity swelling in our hearts. That is the power of the open Internet, and it is why we must do everything we can to protect black voices. Our lives depend on it.

  

  Patrisse Cullors
  • Why
  • Power
  • Black

• Gather in your resources, rally all your faculties, marshal all your energies, focus all your capacities upon mastery of at least one field of endeavor.

  

  John Hagee
  • Focus

• E-commerce is a powerful means to connect the unconnected to global trade.

  

  Arancha Gonzalez
  • Powerful

• Do you want to live life, or do you want to escape life?

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • Life
  • Live
  • Live Life

• The reason you see so many volcanoes on Venus is partly due to the fact that there's virtually no erosion there. So on Venus, you're seeing features, some of which are hundreds of millions of years old on the surface. On Earth, we do not see any surface features nearly that old - you only see much more recent features.

  

  David Grinspoon
  • Earth

• The key to longevity? Maybe putting an album out every four years - people don't get bored of you! No, just joking. I think, not taking yourself too seriously. You've got to have a sense of humor. You have to be strong-willed to put up with all the bullshit that goes with the job. You've got to consistently write good songs, and have the right rock-n-roll attitude. The Stones are a perfect example. If we could last that long, I'd be very happy.

  

  Joe Elliott Def Leppard
  • Job
  • Happy
  • Key

• Commercial television has underestimated the intelligence of the public.

  

  Jerry Lewis