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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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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Thus it is necessary to commence from an inescapable duality: the finite is not the infinite.
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I'm from Pennsylvania, so I was in New York a lot and my brother lives in New York.
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Cancer victims who don't accept their fate, who don't learn to live with it, will only destroy what little time they have left.
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Every time I try to tell people things about my career, I wonder if that's the truth or something I'm fantasizing about.
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I started making some proper decisions, getting things in order. It's kind of like cleaning up your house. I was looking for direction for what God wanted me to do - and that's when I got a call about The Passion.
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In my house every Sunday, everybody was cleaning the house. There was always music, and everybody was dancing, sometimes naked, around the house. Not hippie, but very free.
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There are no tough guys in wrestling.
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Pity? You don't want to be pitied because you're a cripple in a wheelchair? Stay in your house!
