Jerry Lewis Quotes
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It is the duty of our men to enroll themselves in the national services. We need all our manpower for defence. For the military and... we need a quarter of a million men.
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You know when you see those guys and their sideburns are just a little too high? You don't need to have sideburns, but don't have to have them right above the ear. I knew a guy that did that in high school and I was like, 'What are you doing? Just let them down a little.'
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Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.
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You meet people in Hollywood that are famous, and you're not sure what they got famous for.
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I will form good habits and become their slave. And how will I accomplish this difficult feat? Through these scrolls it will be done, for each scroll contains a principle which will drive a bad habit from my life and replace it with one which will bring me closer to success.
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When America is chasing you, the whole world is chasing you.
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There's no substitute to actually being in the room and having people in the room feel the force of your audition. It's very hard to beat that.
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I sleep and I unsleep. On the other side of me, beyond where I lie down, the silence of the house touches infinity. I hear time falling, drop by drop, and no falling drop is heard falling.
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Scientific and technological 'solutions' which poison the environment or degrade the social structure and man himself are of no benefit, no matter how brilliantly conceived or how great their superficial attraction.
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I just want to go back to rockin', but I'm uncertain as to what to actually do … The truth is, I never stopped thinking about rock 'n' roll for a second that I'm on holiday.
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In response to nearly a thousand queries, the Scientology delegation handed over forty-eight binders of supporting material, stretching nearly seven linear feet.
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Dat poenas laudata fides, cum sustinet inquitquos fortuna premit.
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We hold each other’s lives in our open hands, not in clenched fists.
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Becoming an entrepreneur was the furthest thing from my mind. I actually had an identity crisis when I realized I had become one.
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Right up until the late 18th century, when the first weighted lines were used to probe the ocean depths, many people believed the seas were bottomless - the watery equivalent of infinite outer space.
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You've never heard of an English lover. Only an English patient.
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It's self-soothing for me to draw. So if I'm upset, drawing makes me less upset.
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I like the accidental nature of being in the real world.
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I'm from a singing family, but they're not professional singers, only gospel - my grandfather was a minister. I started to sing the music that was out then because my mother used to play it all the time. It was the end of the '50s, the beginning of the '60s. There was Frankie Lyman and the Teenagers, Etta James... We used to sit outside on the stoop and sing. We even used to put our radios and record players outside.
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We had to work out how the world was going to be divided up and, using props and costumes, we had to stage a ten minute play.
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Beauty lives with kindness.
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When I'm working, I stay in ICU in any hospital that will get me a bed.
