Jerry Lewis Quotes
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I like being from a city that is not entrenched in show business. When you're in New York City or Los Angeles, even if you're not dealing with show business, there's still this sense that it's the center of the universe.
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Nuclear power is not a miracle key for the future.
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The U.S. won the majors 29-11 in the 1980s. That's when Tom Watson and Jack Nicklaus were carrying the ball, and when Seve Ballesteros was becoming a Brit in the minds of English and Scottish journalists.
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I have three boys, so I live in a household full of testosterone.
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Year 2008 wiped out $19.2 trillion in US income... What if the money was spent on the Midwest of the United States?
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Yes, politics IS war without bloodshed; and war is an extension of those politics.
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I like the map feature on the iPhone that tells me where I am, because I travel a lot.
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I will say that the food in both Japan and Italy was immaculate. I don't remember having bad food in either country.
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Quite frankly, I don't miss standing in the box or standing on the field playing.
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Having competed themselves, my father and my uncle are very passionate about motorsport, so I inherited it from them.
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When people are in the midst of really heavy stuff and still have a sense of humor, I admire that.
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The romantic idea is that everybody around a writer must suffer for his talent. I think a writer is a citizen of humanity, part of his nation, part of his family. He may have to make some compromises.
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I'd like there to be consistently more women's storylines going on at the same time.
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I don't have any tricky plays, I'd rather have tricky players.
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I used to hate stilettos. It took me a lot of time to understand how to walk in them and look graceful. And eventually, you realise their importance.
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As an artist, all I want is to be a part of good films.
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I'm sort of suspicious of most economic development projects, but the ones that encourage taxpayer-funded relocation bidding wars should be declared unconstitutional.
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'Orphan Black' allows for people to have debates and theories and allegiances to different characters - to trust characters and hate other characters - but it doesn't tell you who is good or bad or right or wrong. That's the most exciting storytelling, in my book.
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In the '70s, terrorism was much more serious, in that many more people got killed.
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I suppose anybody just losing it and sputtering curses is pretty funny. But I think it would be more of a challenge, much more of a challenge, to make a cursing dad funny.
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I realized, then, that I had stood without intending to. Flight reaction, I said to myself. Instinctive. Upon experiencing close adversaries. The lizard part of the brain.
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The idea that every time you do a film you're supposed to be tortured confuses me. I mean, guys who say "Oh, it's really tough, my character is really suffering" - come on. For us, even in the rotten ones, we've had a good time. I don't think you have to suffer.
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I go where the action is.
