Jerry Lewis Quotes
For a comic to put a public performance in jeopardy for a snickering little laugh - no, no, no, I don't believe in it.
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It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.
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I'm saying that an editorial process that is preparing the material for publication counts as part of the inspiring process whereby God, in his sovereignty, gave every word.
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I'm a computer scientist by training. I'm also the author of three books, all of which endorse the use of biotechnology to improve the human condition. In the most recent of these, 'The Infinite Resource,' I talk about the power of innovation to save the world.
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Through love one acquires renunciation and discrimination naturally.
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A feeling of alienation existed in India about life in Pakistan because most of what was known was negative. So, everyone used to believe things in our country are always bad, and we don't lead a happy life. But this has changed to some extent. After watching our dramas, people now know that we lead our lives similar to the way they live.
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Clearly I am a very strong, top-of-the-line, always-rising-to-it personage.
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There are hundreds of millions of gun owners in this country, and not one of them will have an accident today. The only misuse of guns comes in environments where there are drugs, alcohol, bad parents, and undisciplined children. Period.
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We are dealing with treachery and threats, which accompanied the establishment of Israel.
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I know people think that a lot of sports stars are a little bit up themselves, but they all have their heroes, too.
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When you're in the battlefield, survival is all there is. Death is the only great emotion.
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Where radio is different than fiction is that even mediocre fiction needs purpose, a driving question.
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It was really impossible to break through in Russia. We couldn't buy any balls. We really didn't have any courts, no rackets, nothing. And no people to practice with.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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Being a public company is really terrible for most companies. I'd say Facebook and Google have done a pretty good job of standing up to the incredible quarterly pressure to hit numbers, but most companies - and I've observed a lot now - don't do a very good job of that.
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Beer. Now there's a temporary solution.
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In 1989, I was on Tiananmen Square with the students, living in their makeshift tents and joining their jubilant singing of the Internationale. In the two decades since, each time that I have gone back, visions from those days seem to return with increasing persistence.
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I have had a few turning points, the first day I entered a gymnastics school at age 6.
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My own conviction is, confirmed by a very close study of parochial registers, that some of the very best blood in England is to be found among the tradesmen of our county towns.
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We have to keep in mind that it's not just about the numbers of people who died; it's also the manner which many of these victims met their deaths.
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I had to go on without my mother, even though I was suffering terribly, grieving her.
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I just don't see the point in sitting around hollering the blues over things you have no control over. It's all in God's hands.
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School just speeds things up... Without school it might take 70 years before you wake up and are able to count.
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Discipline, it has been suggested, is the means of human spiritual evolution. What provides the motive, the energy for discipline? This force I believe to be love. I define love thus: The will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth.
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For a comic to put a public performance in jeopardy for a snickering little laugh - no, no, no, I don't believe in it.
