Jerry Lewis Quotes
When you're doing a different kind of film, you have to bring a different kind of attitude; you have to bring a different kind of concentration.
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I think computer science, by and large, is still stuck in the Modern age.
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But I also think that the more you reason collectively about what the project should be at the beginning of the process, the more you can improvise later.
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Few men can be said to have inimitable excellencies: let us watch them in their progress from infancy to manhood, and we shall soon be convinced that what they attained was the necessary consequence of the line they pursued, and the means they used.
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Really, I prefer not to read my early books. Not that I don't like them, but I don't recognize myself anymore, like an old actor watching himself as a young leading man.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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I think the American people want to see the interactivity between candidates and audiences, and tough questions posed by people and how you handle them under fire.
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I love surprises - champagne and strawberries, all that pampering, romantic stuff. Guys ought to know how to pamper their women properly.
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My hair and my accent are sort of my main assets.
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You can't be preachy - kids are allergic to messages.
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I talk in subjects and verbs, and sort of wind around in concentric circles until I get far enough away from the beginning so that I can call it the end, and it ends.
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I was described as a dreamer, a fantasist, even as the village idiot. I didn't care. What I cared about was convincing people to allow me to go on with my work.
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I have a knack for choosing the wrong people.
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I am a bit of a Cheap Pete, but I do spend a fortune on books and false moustaches and practical jokes.
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I was raised a Christian. I'd like to think I have Christian values. I don't attend church.
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However, we still have the problem of free travel and movement, since the Travel Documents issued by UNMIK as the substitute to passports, are not fully recognized yet by all countries.
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Perhaps the truest axiom in baseball is that the toughest thing to do is repeat.
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Anybody that wants to walk out that door and leave home for a few months and rely on themselves instead of fate might have some interesting stories to tell.
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I think, certainly in the more civilized societies, women's roles are growing in power all of the time.
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That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.
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The problem of suffering is: why is there the suffering we know?
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I was friends with all different people and all different groups. And that led me to being friends with a few people who didn't even go to my school. Now I have the most amazing collection of friends of all ethnic backgrounds and upbringing and financial backgrounds.
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I find it quite difficult on studio films because there are so many different executives and things like that that you have to go through, so very often getting that definitive opinion is actually quite difficult.
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The way in which we manage the business of getting and spending is closely tied to our personal philosophy of living. We begin to develop this philosophy long before we have our first dollar to spend; and unless we are thinking people, our attitude toward money management may continue through the years to be tinged with the ignorance and innocence of childhood.
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When you're doing a different kind of film, you have to bring a different kind of attitude; you have to bring a different kind of concentration.
