Lewis Grizzard Quotes
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With the price of life these days, you've got to get everything for free you can.
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Well what I will tell you is for this movie, I got into probably the best shape of my life.
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Making money is marvelous, and I love doing it, and I do it reasonably well, but it doesn't have the gripping vitality that you have when you deal with the happiness of human life and with human deprivation.
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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
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He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.
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The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment.
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Small change, small wonders - these are the currency of my endurance and ultimately of my life.
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I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.
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Life is one long jubilee.
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I've always been singing all my life, but I started playing guitar when I was 19, and that was my final year in university, in law school. I think that happened when I started making a lot of friends who were in the independent music scene.
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I started playing bluegrass with my family, so there were the G, C and D chords. I was playing a Martin acoustic because that's what Carter Stanley of the Stanley Brothers played. Then I got into the really raw blues of Hound Dog Taylor and started on electric guitar.
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I quit after a bad car accident. The thing about boxing is that you can be a star for five or six years, but when you go back to the old life, it's tough.
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When I did 'Don't Look Back,' I no longer had Time-Life looking over my shoulder, so I could kind of do it as I wanted, and it was like I was really correcting 'Jane.'
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Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
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You matter to God, and every detail of your life matters to Him.
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There's a tradition in British intellectual life of mocking any non-political force that gets involved in politics, especially within the sphere of the arts and the theatre.
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Life is what happens when you're doing other things, right?
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I suspect there are people in all walks of life who need to be dragged into the 21st century in terms of attitudes towards women.
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In the first 30 years of your life, you make your habits. For the last 30 years of your life, your habits make you.
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I attach the greatest importance to an amplification of the peace efforts in the Middle East. I would also like to see a greater dialogue between the U.S. and the EU.
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Where have all the flowers gone, long time passing? Where have all the flowers gone, long time ago? Where have all the flowers gone? Young girls have picked them everyone. Oh, when will they ever learn?
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I rode my bike to school every day from age five to age fourteen. It was a small town - you could go anywhere.
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Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
