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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When the movie starts playing on TV and DVD, that's when you really see what the movie is.
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It need not discourage us if we are full of doubts. Healthy questions keep faith dynamic. In fact, unless we start with doubts we cannot have a deep-rooted faith. One who believes lightly and unthinkingly has not much of a belief. One who has a faith which is not to be shaken has won it through blood and tears-has worked his or her way from doubt to truth as one who reaches a clearing through a thicket of brambles and thorns.
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Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
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It is a mistake for women to think that life begins only with marriage. A woman can and must have an identity and feel useful, valued, and needed whether she is single or married. She must feel that she can do something for someone else that no one else ever born can do.
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We want to promote the great qualities of athletics - and maintain its integrity - all over the world.
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I don't like any female comedians.
