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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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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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'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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there is time to play...and then there are times to work hard and get my fans an album.
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I am convinced that living in an enclave shapes the personality, and living alone shapes the personality too.
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My favourite 'stage' of Shakira was the brunette punk rock one, but she'll always have a special place in my heart, whatever she's doing.
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Very similar experience happened last year when we released this album, North. It was on Deutsche Grammophon, it was very, very honest. It was the most honest record I've ever written.
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The usual cause of evil in the world is that at any given time half the people in the world are awake.
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Now, this one might be a little stringy, but then again, it's fiddle player." That isn't fiddle player, it's piccolo player." How can you tell?" It's PIPING hot!" Then blow on it first!
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The essence of democracy is its assurance that every human being should so respect himself and should be so respected in his own personality that he should have opportunity equal to that of every other human being to show what he was meant to become.
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Going into Indianapolis, playing Indiana, I guess bring it on. It's what we've caught at the end of the year, and we've got to try to make the best of it.
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I can't stand to ask anyone, 'How was that?'
