Jerry Lewis Quotes
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For me, songwriting starts with a melody. When a musician plays a chord progression, either the words and vocal melody come to me, or they don't. That's how I determine who to write with. It works, or it doesn't.
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He used to have a tent show, a little tent show, and I thought I was going to get a job working one year on the tent show, but he closed it down and I never got to go out there, but anyway, he had a sax and played drums.
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I didn't volunteer; they asked me. I felt a duty to testify.
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Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.
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I'm not into the attention thing so much.
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Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
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Our soldiers show every single day that they are more than good enough.
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I love young men, lots of them, your ancient masculine double standard.
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I've done the Rolling Stones eating each other.
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Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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I love having my hoop earrings. Just regular gold hoops.
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I am not one of those people who believe that MLK achieved more in martyrdom than he could have if he'd lived: imagine what a guiding influence he could have on the world were he still among us.
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To my child's eyes, which had seen nothing else, Shanghai was a waking dream where everything I could imagine had already been taken to its extreme.
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Any writer who gives a reader a pleasurable experience is doing every other writer a favor because it will make the reader want to read other books. I am all for it.
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I think it's very important to have a sense of balance in covering the war, but you don't have to be morally neutral about terrorism.
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In the matter of learning, the difference between the earnest and the careless student stands out clearly. The same holds true in the mastering of passion and the weaknesses to which our nature is subject, as in the acquiring of virtue.
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Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.
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My grandmother got her law degree from Syracuse University in roughly 1911 and later co-founded with her husband an investment banking firm on Wall Street known as Lebenthal & Co.
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The long-term study of GMO foods is going on in real time and in real life. Not in a lab.
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Death is not something any one of us want to dwell on, but we must all confront it at some point.
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This is going to sound really funny. I have a poster of Zac Efron on my wall! I think every girl has a poster of him in their room so, why not join the club!
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Keegan-Michael Key and Lindsay Sloane are two of the best, literally, just dramatic actors.
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The answer is the same for everyone: we must, and we can, resist temptations of any kind.
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I don't like any female comedians.
