Jerry Lewis Quotes
Pity? You don't want to be pitied because you're a cripple in a wheelchair? Stay in your house!
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The Afghans themselves say that if you put two Afghans in a room, you get three factions.
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It was in India that I started my acting career, courtesy of my parents, long before I set foot on stage in England. They headed a company of travelling players performing Shakespeare up and down the land.
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I would never belong to any club that excluded anybody for race.
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Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom.
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To take part in this brothel through the payment of my taxes, that had become to me unbearable.
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Southern Appalachians have been ridiculed since the country began. In fiction, they're usually depicted in a cartoonish manner. The region is poor, and very suspicious of outsiders, so there's a sort of 'us versus them' situation. They're easy to poke fun at.
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I am a very selfish person.
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They got word that the Japanese planes were coming back, so we sunk her ourselves so the Japanese wouldn't get it. We didn't want the Japanese to get it intact.
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Near the end of my career, I saw things that didn't make too much sense to me when I was a kid.
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I have a fascination with Flight 93. My emotions are mixed: awe, gratitude, fear, heartache, pride - even, in some ways, guilt.
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I write the novels that are possible for me to write, not that ones I think will come across in a certain light.
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The fact that I'm sleeping with the director may have something to do with it.
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To go behind a man's hall-door is mean, cowardly, unfair opposition.
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I worry about everything in the world, and it's just too much for anybody to think about, so I have my art as my consolation.
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It's beneficial to play against your type; to be chameleon-like.
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We must restrict the anonymity behind which people hide to commit crimes. As citizens, we have a right to privacy. We have no such right to anonymity.
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I would argue that the objective evidence shows that big government is not a friend to African Americans.
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That's one of the great things about comedy: we can - and should - say the things that other people aren't supposed to say. If we didn't do that, if we didn't push against those limits, we'd just be standing around onstage and yelling.
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Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.
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When you don't have those types of things, fashion and all that stuff, it helps you find yourself because you don't have those things to rely on.
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I was born on the first day of January 1941 in the front bedroom of my grandparents' house in Rodborough near Stroud in Gloucestershire where my mother had come to escape the bombing in London.
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Most of the planet's terrestrial surfaces are visually accessible through video cameras and satellite imagery, if not physically within reach. Even the approaches to Mount Everest are now littered with human debris. One can drive to Timbuktu, which for centuries was synonymous with inaccessibility.
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I don't believe in aliens. I don't think aliens or ghosts like black people. We never get abducted; our houses never get haunted. It always happens in rural areas, where no ethnic people live. The day I see somebody from South Central Los Angeles say, 'Man, I got abducted yesterday,' then I'll believe it.
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Pity? You don't want to be pitied because you're a cripple in a wheelchair? Stay in your house!
