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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I just want to live in peace and quiet.
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I'm definitely a character actor. I've tried to limit anything with a uniform because I've done it so much. There's a lot more I can offer. It's just getting people to see something else.
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This knowledge, the knowledge that the physical well-being of the citizen is an important foundation for the vigor and vitality of all the activities of the nation, is as old as Western civilization itself.
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We are here to repair the world. I grew up thinking that was what everybody was trying to do.
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When I was building the Vietnam Memorial, I never once asked the veterans what it was like in the war, because from my point of view, you don't pry into other people's business.
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I don't like any female comedians.
