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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Personal responsibility is not only recognizing the errors of our ways. Personal responsibility lies in our willingness and ability to correct those errors individually and collectively.
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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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I came back to Philips and quickly realised that the TV business had a major performance issue and some structural challenges. Rather than try to tweak it and sit things out, we said we had to go for a structural solution.
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I do go into things thinking, 'Right. I'm going to enjoy this.'
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Traveling is my priority, because it drives the writing, so I teach around the travel, and sometimes the travel is the teaching.
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When I was in my teens, I thought, 'Would I like to try and work hard at being an actor, or do I want to work hard at doing something musical?' Acting won out, but I do really enjoy those moments where I get to just belt something out.
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My delight in things is definitely Caribbean. It has to do with landscape and food. The fact that my language may have a metrical direction is because that's the shape of the language. I didn't make that shape.
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I started as a writer. I had the dumb act, but I made my living from writing.
