John Lewis (John Robert Lewis) Quotes
We will stand up for what is right, for what is fair and what is just. Health care is a right and not a privilege.
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I do have friends who make movies, but for the most part, I never really wanted to feel like I was part of an industry.
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I just write what I think is funny. I don't care who watches it.
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A handicap is like trying to race and you have a ten pound weight stuck to your waist. That is a handicap.
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Ideas come mostly bottoms-up. They come when you have a free flow of ideas and you have people able to combine multiple ideas into one concept... And you've got to have competition, too. You've got to say, 'We're going to have 10 different ideas, nine of them are going to fail, and the one that does the best is going to move forward.'
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It's all about the blanket. Blanket, pillow, and red wine. You should always be asleep on a plane.
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When the government takes video of people in public places, the images should only be kept as long as they may reasonably be needed to investigate a crime. After a few days, if there has not been a report of a crime, they should be destroyed.
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I love baseball. And American Football, too. But not rugby.
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I thought I'd be doing weird, Off Broadway theater after I graduated.
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Maybe black and white is the best medium for landscapes, I don't know.
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One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone.
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My favorite game shows were 'Password' and '$25,000 Pyramid.'
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Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.
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When I cook certain dishes, I smell my grandmother's kitchen, my grandmother's smells. I thought, 'What a wonderful way to tell a story.'
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It's true that Paris is made up of equal parts of social conservatism and anarchic experimentation, but foreigners never quite know where to place the moral accent mark.
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We want to make the Cleveland Cavaliers a perennial champion and contender. We want people to be part of the franchise for long periods of time if they fit our culture, no matter who they are, whether it's LeBron or anybody that contributes.
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There's always a special feeling I have while writing any song.
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Children will always be afraid of the dark, and men with minds sensitive to hereditary impulse will always tremble at the thought of the hidden and fathomless worlds of strange life which may pulsate in the gulfs beyond the stars, or press hideously upon our own globe in unholy dimensions which only the dead and the moonstruck can glimpse.
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I work hard and I play hard, too. There is nothing wrong with that.
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We had a mother who could have been called a feminist. That's just how we were raised. Why do you have to go sulk off in some corner because you are a girl? What's the big deal?
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Hanging and wiving goes by destiny.
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Words created divergencies between beings, because their precise meanings put an opinion around the idea. Music only retains the highest and purest substance of the idea, since it has the privilege of expressing all, whilst excluding nothing.
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I was a foggy, erratic teenager: a fifth child, the last in the queue for conversation or attention.
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We will stand up for what is right, for what is fair and what is just. Health care is a right and not a privilege.
