Jerry Lewis Quotes
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I've always made sequels, even when I was making Super 8 movies if the audience liked it.
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I like men who paint or write or do something creative.
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If Boston charters can be stymied despite their extraordinary success, charters anywhere can be stopped.
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I like to go to my simple cottage by the ocean or, really, any beach!
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I never feel there's anything I can't do.
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I'm not religious, I'm not romantic and I live purely by logic. I make every decision by logic and sometimes that leads me to the right and sometimes to the wrong decision.
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It's a great feat for me to have broken my world record.
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Fortuitous circumstances constitute the moulds that shape the majority of human lives, and the hasty impress of an accident is too often regarded as the relentless decree of all ordaining fate.
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Frankly speaking, it's only the script that matters to me the most. If I like the script, then I just commit to myself and go ahead with it. But I also look at the commitment and confidence of the director of the film because it's him who will shape the film.
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Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.
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Look, all you can do when you find your niche is go with it.
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Will I obliterate national debt? Sure, why not?
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I'm rap's vigilante. I'm out for justice.
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I am the luckiest novelist in the world. I was a first-time novelist who wasn't awash in rejection slips, whose manuscript didn't disappear in slush piles. I have had a wonderful time.
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Whenever I write a new song, it always happens when I come back from Europe or Egypt or something like that. It's always from travelling.
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If it's accessible by hundreds of millions of people, then it's as mainstream as it gets.
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If we all band together against extremism and spend a few minutes a day using tools that have been proven to work, we can make a big difference in defending those values we share as Americans.
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Anyone can be confident with a full head of hair. But a confident bald man - there's your diamond in the rough.
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There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
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One has to understand what the enemy is all about: the enemy's history, the enemy's culture, the enemy's aspirations. If you understand these well, you can perhaps move towards peace.
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In my view, a philanthropist is anyone who gives anything - time, money, experience, skills or networks - in any amount, to create a better world. This is not how we once thought about philanthropy. The word used to conjure up something rather passive - sitting down and writing checks.
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And writing I think is a gift that you have, the same as acting, in a way.
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While the impostor draws his identity from past achievements and the adulation of others, the true self claims identity in its belovedness. We encounter God in the ordinariness of life: not in the search for spiritual highs and extraordinary, mystical experiences but in our simple presence in life.
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I started as a writer. I had the dumb act, but I made my living from writing.
