Jerry Lewis Quotes
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I don't get controversial, I don't get political and I don't tell you what to do with your life. I just go out there and tell some stories, and people can relate.
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I study what's happening in music. I want to sound different than everybody else.
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I got lost but look what I found.
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Squid don't eat jellyfish, but they eat the things that eat the jellyfish. Jellyfishes put on a lightshow to attract a larger predator. It's caught in the clutches of something like a fish and has no hope for escape unless its lightshow attracts something bigger that will attack their attacker.
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I rarely draw what I see. I draw what I feel in my body.
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I keep on 5 to 10 pounds above my jeans weight, as the ultimate no-filler-needed refresher, and buy a size up on jeans.
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For me, insomnia was something ordinary, and it came and went for ordinary reasons.
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There are standards of the game that FIFA governs and promises to uphold.
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I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
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It was also my idea that the advisory committees of the Academy should replace the legal committees of the German Reichstag, which was gradually fading into the background in the Reich.
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The financial crisis is a stark reminder that transparency and disclosure are essential in today's marketplace.
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Apart from a few simple principles, the sound and rhythm of English prose seem to me matters where both writers and readers should trust not so much to rules as to their ears.
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My drumming is always an experiment.
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There's this famous observation that I totally believe: Great startup ideas are the ones that lie in the intersection of the Venn diagram of 'is a good idea' and 'looks like a bad idea.' So you want most people to think it's a bad idea and thus not compete with you until you get giant. But for it to secretly be good.
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The old man … said … the notion that men can be understood was probably an illusion.
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All that time, you go, 'God, am I slipping away here?' And then something great happens, you get a call, and work begets more work.
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There's no question in my mind of the value in technology in fueling young minds. Like any other tool, if you simply throw it in the classroom and don't consider how best to take advantage of that tool, and you try the old ways with a new piece of technology on the desk, it's no panacea.
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I'm not against wealth; I just think everybody should have it, same as health.
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I think the feeling of being kind of overwhelmed is almost part of the aesthetic of the work.
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In all honesty, if somebody asked me the secret of auditioning for Americans, I don't know. Often, I do what's called self-taping for America. I go over there quite a lot to sit in a room and do stuff in front of people. You feel like a performing monkey. It's bizarre.
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It's really important to me that the music that I release is true to me and important to me.
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A hungry wolf at all the herd will run, In hopes, through many, to make sure of one.
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You're free because you don't have to expose yourself, and you can go wild, and let your id completely out of its box, and nobody will see you because you're operating through a surrogate. It's an opportunity to crack open your shell, to melt down yourself, and just let yourself go. It's a form of catharsis for me.
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When I was young, I wasn't disciplined at all.
