Joseph Lewis Quotes
The burning of an author's books, imprisonment for opinion's sake, has always been the tribute that an ignorant age pays to the genius of its time.
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I want people to get over the stigma about hemp. These seeds can't make you high, but they will make you feel good.
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Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.
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It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.
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Dancing is the last sport with no sponsor.
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I believe that we are at a very low level of consciousness, and we do not know how to treat each other as human beings. We are caught up in our own lives, our own needs, our own ego gratification. I feel a strong sense of responsibility in delivering that message.
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I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.
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Many people who I respected were disappointed when I started 'Wine Library TV.' They thought I was dumbing down wine, but I always knew I was one of the biggest producers of new wine drinkers in the world, and people are realizing it now.
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You need the audience to go on the ride with you. You can't just isolate them.
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Look what Disney's done to their animation department. There wasn't an animator in charge of their animation unit!
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It's really important, especially for young girls, to see that if you fall down, you get back up. If you get sick, you get back up. People are going to say what they want.
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I have a lot of men who will say to me, 'I don't read books by women, but I like you.'
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I've looked after my money. As I started working around my third birthday, my first check went straight to the bank.
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It's good that I put my personal ego aside. My basketball ego was, 'Why we negotiating?' But my personal ego didn't take it personal. I put my personal ego aside a little bit.
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The intelligence failures with respect to Iraq were massive and have damaged our credibility around the world.
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People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.
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While watching him work on the set of the film based on my life - Patch Adams - I saw that whenever there was a stressful moment, Robin would tap into his improvisation style to lighten the mood of cast and crew.
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I cite these events because I think they underline two very disturbing phenomena - the loss of U.S. international credibility, the growing U.S. international isolation.
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I began singing in dive bars and really small clubs. I dragged my piano down the stairs, and I went down the street with my keyboard, and I would go to every different dive bar that I could get to agree to let me play. I'd call and pretend I was Lady Gaga's manager.
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We don't live by just sleeping and eating. We need pride and dignity in our lives. Work gives you that.
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I come from a short fiction background, and my mom is a poet, so I've always read poetry; I've always had a lot of different influences both linguistically and musically.
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The demon of intemperance ever seems to have delighted in sucking the blood of genius and of generosity.
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The burning of an author's books, imprisonment for opinion's sake, has always been the tribute that an ignorant age pays to the genius of its time.
