Jerry Lewis Quotes

I would not want to do one-episode television - that's just a brief encounter with your audience. The arc takes the actor into an arena where he can really stretch.

Jerry Lewis

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• Dishonesty is all about the small acts we can take and then think, 'No, this not real cheating.' So if you think that the main mechanism is rationalization, then what you come up with, and that's what we find, is that we're basically trying to balance feeling good about ourselves.

  

  Dan Ariely
  • Up
  • Good
  • Real

• Ideas come mostly bottoms-up. They come when you have a free flow of ideas and you have people able to combine multiple ideas into one concept... And you've got to have competition, too. You've got to say, 'We're going to have 10 different ideas, nine of them are going to fail, and the one that does the best is going to move forward.'

  

  Ramez Naam
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• The whole community of people with disabilities was alive, politically alive. I give Justin Dart credit for that. He traveled to every state in the country. He really made people with disabilities understand that they had some political power.

  

  Major Owens
  • People
  • Country
  • Power

• I haven't actually studied acting at all.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • Acting
  • Actually
  • Studied

• I don't know what it is about me. I don't know if there's something strange... but I continue to play aliens, so there's obviously something there.

  

  Laura Vandervoort
  • Know
  • Play
  • Strange

• But I don't think we'll go there until we go back to the moon and develop a technology base for living and working and transporting ourselves through space.

  

  Jack Schmitt
  • Space
  • Technology
  • Moon

• Florence is charming, cozy, beautiful, inspiring - it has so many great places to go to and so many unique things to see that you won't find anywhere else!

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • Great
  • Beautiful
  • Unique

• You might as well play at the show everyone else is playing at.

  

  J Mascis
  • You
  • Play
  • Everyone

• I realize how myself and other people have started to almost fool ourselves that it's more important to us and more real than the real world, the offline world, and we value looking at our phone and pixels on a screen more than connecting eye to eye with a human being, which is terrifying to me because we're becoming robots.

  

  Tali Lennox
  • People
  • World
  • Value

• The Foxy character and Inga Marchand are two different people. My fiance calls me Inga. No one around me calls me Foxy. I go to church every Sunday. I go to Bible study every Friday night. I'm saved.

  

  Foxy Brown
  • People
  • Different
  • Character

• Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Love
  • Friendship
  • For Her

• All a Jew has to do is recite a few proverbs or anecdotes to consider himself an expert on 'Jewishness.'

  

  S. Ansky
  • Himself
  • Jew
  • Few

• I lived a block and a half away from four cousins, and I had three siblings. The Jaeger home was a big, messy, happy family.

  

  Sam Jaeger
  • Family
  • Home
  • Happy

• As a company, we have to be very transparent. We are in a business very related to finance, and I want this company to last long, and I want this company to be audited by everyone.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Long
  • Business
  • Finance

• The kind of world I'm endlessly going on about is pretty well doomed, but nevertheless I think there are recesses of it worth celebrating.

  

  Iain Sinclair
  • World
  • Think
  • Pretty

• Nostalgia is a powerful drug. Under its influence, ordinary songs take on dimensions and powers, like emotional superheroes.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Powerful
  • Emotional
  • Influence

• A human being would certainly not grow to be seventy or eighty years old if this longevity had no meaning for the species. The afternoon of human life must also have a significance of its own and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life's morning.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Life
  • Morning
  • Meaning

• It was like the Beatles had arrived, you know. These four elderly ladies, and they were screaming for us-screaming for us. It was wonderful.

  

  Bea Arthur

• Many people today agree that we need to reduce violence in our society. If we are truly serious about this, we must deal with the roots of violence, particularly those that exist within each of us. We need to embrace 'inner disarmament,' reducing our own emotions of suspicion, hatred and hostility toward our brothers and sisters

  

  Dalai Lama
  • People
  • Today
  • Society

• The state remains, as it was in the beginning, the common enemy of all well-disposed, industrious and decent men.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Men
  • Beginning
  • Enemy

• There are times when your mind isn't ready to go but your body is, and times when your body is ready to go but your mind isn't. You try to get the two in sync as much as possible.

  

  Ben Zobrist
  • Mind

• I would not want to do one-episode television - that's just a brief encounter with your audience. The arc takes the actor into an arena where he can really stretch.

  

  Jerry Lewis