Jerry Lewis Quotes
There's something wonderful about taking a tag off a pair of socks, off a shirt, off a jacket. I really think that it has to do with my wanting to give myself all the perks that there are. It's part of my psychosis.
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I've got Asperger's syndrome and I'm not a very good people person, so I've always been more comfortable around machinery. Not in a weird way - I don't want to marry my car or anything stupid like that!
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I guess you could say I'm pretty wary.
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Among my generation, there was a purist position that any contact with electoral politics was an unforgiveable compromise.
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Art is the job of the privileged.
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Depression has existed as long as mankind itself, and certainly well before psychiatry, antidepressant medication, or the nation of America itself came into being.
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Why not premiere movies on Netflix the same day they're opening in theaters? Listen to the consumer; give the consumer what they want.
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I see you're a man with ideals. I better be going before you've still got them.
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I don't look like a desert person because I stay indoors most of the day and fool around at night. That's what the desert animals do - they don't have a tan either.
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Idealism, unrealistic idealism, is always contrasted with the reality of the people, of the man in the street. The details of daily life are always more convincing than the political fantasies of the earlier generations.
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During my theatre days, I was more comfortable doing comedy. It's such an irony. I have always played a buffoon on stage, and yet I don't have any comic role to my credit.
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And we broadcast tapes sent to us from Americans against the war. These were most effective I believe.
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The liberal intelligentsia has allowed its party to become a captive of corporate interests.
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Respect the burden.
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Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.
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Whatever storytelling muscles you've developed as a documentary filmmaker will be extremely helpful as a narrative filmmaker.
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Britain is no longer one of the world's price setters. It is painful. It is a challenge to us in government to explain all that, and it is a pity that the political class is not preparing the public for it to understand how massive the problem is.
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I don't know anything about music.
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In North America, more than half of all children travel to school by bus. We need a similar programme in London.
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Happiness springs from doing good and helping others.
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I never stopped studying Buddhism. In the past few years, in between movies, I do a retreat.
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There's something wonderful about taking a tag off a pair of socks, off a shirt, off a jacket. I really think that it has to do with my wanting to give myself all the perks that there are. It's part of my psychosis.
