Jerry Lewis Quotes
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I want to go into science class and awaken that spark that makes learning possible.
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More than anything for me, making music is about taking nothing and making something.
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Between 1945 and 1965, the number of colonial people ruled by the British monarch plunged from 700 million to five million. In 1956, just three years after the coronation, the Suez canal crisis and Anthony Eden's humiliation ended all notions that Britain was a world superpower.
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The chasm between rich and poor is becoming larger, and I think it's interesting terrain to talk about and expose.
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By trade, I am a software programmer, so I never really had any experience with movies before. I started out with 'Paranormal Activity.'
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What is the future of the woman's movement? How in the hell do I know? I don't run it.
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Grant that the true organ with which the beautiful is apprehended is the imagination, and it follows that all arts are likely to affect the feelings indirectly.
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After the Pearl Harbor attacks, around 120,000 Japanese Americans were jailed in internment camps. If an attack on U.S. soil were perpetrated by people who were not white and Christian, we can be pretty damn sure that racists would have a field day.
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I find skydiving really hard. I broke my back while skydiving when I was in the military, and for 18 months all my nightmares were about falling.
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My first gig was a Corn Pops commercial. I did the first Vanilla Coke campaign. A Juicy Fruit commercial paid my bills for years.
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The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat.
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I'm very curious to know what it's like, death - I always say to my wife, 'I wonder if we'll have the 'New York Times' when we're dead.'
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Having a son is not all pleasure.
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I think that the very fact that CBS fought and fought and fought in Texas, in New York.
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If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy is melodrama.
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A fighter, a real strong fighter, should always look dignified and calm, and I believe that any expression of aggression is an expression of weakness. A strong person will not be nervous and will not express aggression towards his opponent. He will be confident in his abilities and his training; then he will face the fight calm and balanced.
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Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.
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I think as I've gotten older, I've learned to look at life and take every day as it comes.
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Some people have a tendency to get knocked down in this business and sulk and whine, and they just create a rod for their back, really. You have to have broad shoulders and get through it.
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What feels most productive to me isn't to think so much in terms of how I can be alternative, but how I can be subversive in a way that feels organic, how I can connect with people, and how I can just be myself, which may be the hardest thing to be.
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Whatever the price, identify it now. What will you have to go through to get where you want to be? There is a price you can pay to be free of the situation once and for all. It may be a fantastic price or a tiny one - but there is a price.
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It's not music you would use to get a girl into bed. If anything, you're going to frighten her off.
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When I get an idea, I start to write like I was electrically motivated.
