Jerry Lewis Quotes
I'm really not thick-skinned - my wife will tell you that I take sunsets personally - but I know that I've got the belly for whatever comes down the pike. I think it's tenacity. You've been there before, and you just have to recall, 'How did I handle that one?'
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I've always had better luck learning things on my own. And I really love the challenge of doing it yourself and kind of being alone against the system.
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Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
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You win some, lose some, and wreck some.
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I got into politics because I was tired of complaining.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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Music was your real passion, this thing you held dear even above family. It was this relationship that never betrayed you. Once it became your job - this thing that was highly visible, this thing that became about commerce - that's when you were holding onto music like it was a palm tree in a hurricane.
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I divide criticism into two categories - one coming from those who understand music, who are worthy of being critical because they are knowledgeable about what they are saying; and then there is another category of people who would criticise you anyway, whether your work is good or bad.
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A human society obeys the dictates of reason and is guided and governed by a respect for justice.
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Anything that's made by humans is about humans, whether it's about gods or aliens or anything; it's about some sort of expressive nature about us.
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I thought of Jeff Bridges in 'Hell or High Water' and Ben Foster, and I kept trying very hard not to, because you're terrified you're going to write this thing that then feeds specifically to this one person that then won't do it.
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The art world is a very prissy little thing over in the corner, while the major cultural forces are being determined by techno science.
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When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings.
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Very old fashioned to say that they will be well behaved but I think it's very important.
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If we're talking about masculinity and tenderness, I don't look at Clinton.
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America always pivots between collective responsibility and the idea that the individual can pull himself up by his bootstraps.
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The beautiful thing about theater is every night is an opportunity to incorporate what you discovered the night before.
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Any chance to get out and play live for some people and get out of the studio is nice.
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The fighter loses more than his pride in the fight; he loses part of his future. He's a step closer to the slum he came from.
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When someone gets closely related to a character they play on TV, it's very hard to break that mold and go on to do something else.
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Gene Wilder is so funny.
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The news had stirred him strangely. He listened for bulletins on the radio, which he had seldom turned on after finding that its basic function was advertising things for sale.
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If you're going to play a woman, you might as well play a woman that you liked, and someone sexy.
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I got a wife who likes expensive things, so she takes all the cash.
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I'm really not thick-skinned - my wife will tell you that I take sunsets personally - but I know that I've got the belly for whatever comes down the pike. I think it's tenacity. You've been there before, and you just have to recall, 'How did I handle that one?'
