Jerry Lewis Quotes
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In our culture, the shame about accidental pregnancy is inextricable from the shame about having had sex. That disapproval of sex is one reason our record with contraception is so poor. If you're not supposed to be sexual, you don't plan for sex. You cross your fingers and hope for the best.
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In the Seventies, we still had dreams and hopes of Utopia, but by the end of the decade, the world had shifted to the right.
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It's not every day that you get to be affectionate around something, it just doesn't happen that often.
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I was raised speaking English and Spanish. And I also speak Danish. And I can get by in French and Italian. I've acted in Spanish and English, but when something has to do with emotions, sometimes I feel I can get to the heart of the matter better in Spanish.
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Others may make you promises, once again, and then election after election not deliver. We will not do this.
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I want to be judged by who I am, not by a relationship.
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Even the ears must dance.
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I've witnessed so many meetings and conferences where people are trying to figure out what young people think, and my feeling has consistently been that you should just ask them.
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Honestly, I think a good film is spiritual, regardless of whether its subject is faith.
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There are a lot of studies about small businesses and how they make a difference in their community and create a lot of jobs and values. So we need to focus on small businesses or entrepreneurs who want to start manufacturing or making things.
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I love dive bars, old movie theaters, live music and good food. The simplest things in life for me are the most important.
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I don't do office work at home.
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The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity; in a girl boldness.
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I laugh about it all the time, but, for whatever reason, a lot of people think that I wear a wig. I get emails and tweets about people commenting on my hair being a wig. It's one of the strangest but most entertaining things I've read about myself online.
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Everything depends therefore on encountering thought at its source. Such thought is the reality of man's being, which achieved consciousness and understanding of itself through it.
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I like when life is sort of spontaneous. I like the unexpected. I'm comfortable in that!
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I've had some pretty rough interviews. And it's funny when people are interviewing you, and they sort of don't really understand what you do, and they kind of insult you.
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Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
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We shouldn't leave the work of politics to people who run for public office.
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What is at issue is the conversion of the mind from the twilight of error to the truth, that climb up into the real world which we shall call true philosophy.
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But you are mobile as the veering air, And all your charms more changeful than the tide, Wherefore to be inconstant is no care: I have but to continue at your side. So wanton, light and false, my love, are you, I am most faithless when I most am true.
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Pop music allows you to be who you are without having to wear a social uniform or to conform, which some people find impossible to do.
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I can't stand to ask anyone, 'How was that?'
