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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So, it's cool that, yes, Hal Jordan is a superhero, but my character is a real-world hero in her own life.
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Make sure that your kids or the kids in your life have an opportunity to share their ideas, and to teach you something about what we know.
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He who throws away a friend is as bad as he who throws away his life.
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The next night I got on an airplane, and flew to New York and looked into acting schools. Four or five acting schools. One of which was the Neighborhood Playhouse, which I started at six months there after.
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Ma, sooner or later there comes a point in a man's life when he's gotta face some facts. And one fact I've got to face is whateverit is women like, I ain't got it.
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Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
