Jerry Lewis Quotes
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One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.
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Man's enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.
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I like the idea that you can paint something outdoors, and anyone can see it. It's open to anyone, and people have to deal with it. In the gallery, it's the same 150 people on the San Francisco art scene. There's a dynamic on the street that's definitely more interesting.
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While I started out with a vague understanding that diversity would be important, my own observations have led me to realize that achieving greater levels of diversity is in fact vital to our long-term success.
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When a man wrote a political screed against the IRS and flew into its building, he was deemed mentally ill, even though it was clearly a political act. There's a double standard, which is: If his name is Muhammad, it's automatically terrorism.
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The thing about a good podcast is you have to have a good host. If you don't have a compelling host then you have nothing.
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Let me tell you, 'The Reader' was not glamorous for me in terms of the body-hair maintenance.
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The Muslim population in India is, largely speaking, not radicalised. From the beginning, they were always very secular-minded.
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I have always moved by intuition alone. I have no system, literary or political. I have no guiding political idea.
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I feel like I'm a New Yorker because I really know the city. I actually tell the drivers where to go - I have this bad habit, I always question the drivers. I do that all the time because I feel like I know the best way, when really it's like, 'Yo, man, shut up. This dude does this every day of his life.'
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Fascism is fascism. Terrorism is terrorism. Oppression is oppression.
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Our freedom can be measured by the number of things we can walk away from.
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I'm not a director who feels I should be in your face all the time. I really want you to watch the actors and listen to the play.
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Image is powerful, but image is also superficial.
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Somewhere along the line the rhythms and tonalities of music elided in my brain with the sounds that words make and the rhythm that sentences have.
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The boy stood on the burning deck,Whence all but him had fled;The flame that lit the battle's wreckShone round him o'er the dead.
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The higher people get, the more evolved and psychologically healthy people get, the more will enlightened management policy be necessary in order to survive in competition and the more handicapped will be an enterprise with an authoritarian policy.
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Everything belongs to me because I am poor.
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Think of one person who you are tempted for any reason to withhold love from, and pray for their happiness. In that moment your pain will stop.
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It's amazing how much data is out there. The question is how do we put it in a form that's usable?
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I always talk to young writers about when you make art in your room, you make art. And when you send it to New York and L.A., you have to be a professional. Of course, when you sell your book rights as an option for a movie, you have to be a professional about that.
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It seems an obvious thing to say, but you should not imagine that we Pakistanis are all potential terrorists, just as we should not imagine that you Americans are all undercover assassins.
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I don't necessarily want to talk about a book that I read. Even when I love it.
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I'm sour at times.
