Joe E. Lewis Quotes
I've been on such a losing streak that if I had been around I would have taken General Custer and given points.
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I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
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I learned a lot from not having success, and realizing when you do have success, how hard it is to maintain it, and what you have to do to maintain it.
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Being mean just for being mean's sake isn't funny.
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Jobs mean freedom for workers to support their families.
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'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.
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Some women can't say the word lesbian... even when their mouth is full of one.
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Unfortunately or fortunately, in order to become acquainted with the idiom of country or rock music, it is necessary to occasionally play in a bar. Bars are a rehearsal place.
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The whole idea is whatever you do, have fun with it; try to make sure that it's quality and something you don't mind putting your name on.
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I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
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Curiosity begins as an act of tearing to pieces or analysis.
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If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.
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My cross earrings are a mini statement; I wear them every day! My whole dream is to be iconic, and the way you dress yourself is so important.
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As a New Yorker, or wherever I am, I just want to know I can get our of the house in five minutes if I have to and not have to spend a bunch of time obsessing in the mirror, trying on a million different options. Now, I just know what works.
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In today's world, social media, people get judged so much by the last thing that happened, I almost feel, in a way, young people get to see that not only is it OK to fail - that's the way you get to championship success, whether it's sports or business or life.
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If I could only remember that the days were, not bricks to be laid row on row, to be built into a solid house, where one might dwell in safety and peace, but only food for the fires of the heart.
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The mystic cords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the angels of our nature.
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Let me encourage you, if someone has wronged you, and you still get that cringing feeling on the inside when you see or think about that person, take it to God and allow Him to keep your heart soft and sensitive.
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The typical output deal from a studio is 10 to 14 movies a year.
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The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit - a reputation, character.
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The great critic … must be a philosopher, for from philosophy he will learn serenity, impartiality, and the transitoriness of human things.
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When I decided to stay in Iraq, I decided to take the fear out of my body and put it into a freezer.
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I've been offered jobs by companies that supported apartheid many times in the 25 years of my modeling career, but I have never taken one of them. I have to refuse that money, because I'm not going to work against my people. They've suffered enough.
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When I look back on my knee-jerk reactions now, I realize I should have just taken a breath.
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I've been on such a losing streak that if I had been around I would have taken General Custer and given points.
