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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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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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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Medicine was certainly intended to be a career. I wanted to become a psychiatrist, an adolescent ambition which, of course, is fulfilled by many psychiatrists.
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Man must not be turned into a chicken or a rat as in the well-known experiments in which elation is induced electrically through electrodes inserted into the brain. Related to this is the question of the ever-increasing use of tranquilizers and anti-depressants, legal and illegal narcotics, and so forth.
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I don't know if I will be acting all my life, honestly.
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There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.
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A man can be right and president, but he can't be both at the same time.
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I want to write. I want to direct. I want to produce - I want to inhabit what I think it means to fully be an artist.
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Killing a bunch of people in Sudan and Yemen and Pakistan, it's like, "Who cares - we don't know them." But the current discussion is framed as "When can the President kill an American citizen?" Now in my mind, killing a non-American citizen without due process is just as criminal as killing an American citizen without due process - but whatever gets us to the table to discuss this thing, we're going to take it.
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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.
