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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I like to do Pilates.
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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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The American people deserve long-term, forward-thinking policies.
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No matter how much insight and understanding we develop, the rational brain is basically impotent to talk the emotional brain out of its own reality. I am continually impressed by how difficult it is for people who have gone through the unspeakable to convey the essence of their experience.
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But I think theatre in a repressive society is an immensely exciting event and theatre in a luxurious old, affluent old society like ours is an entertaining event.
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I want to play a character I've never been before-a crazy serial killer like Charlize Theron in Monster. I'd love to have to shave my head.
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He might be a man without character, but she was a woman without courage. Of the two, which was worse?
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I don't like any female comedians.
