Lewis Grizzard Quotes
I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.
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But I did an awful lot of work in Hollywood, and in New York for that matter.
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The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers.
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When I was in high school in the early 1970s, we knew we were running out of oil; we knew that easy sources were being capped; we knew that diversifying would be much better; we knew that there were terrible dictators and horrible governments that we were enriching who hated us. We knew all that and we did really nothing.
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We got orders to strike the Marshall and Gilbert Islands. We had a task force with the Enterprise. We had two or three cruisers and probably eight or 10 destroyers.
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Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad.
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The old Devil gets mad when you're trying to do good. Pray that God will move the stumbling blocks.
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By asking a novel question that you don't know the answer to, you discover whether you can formulate a way of finding the answer, and you stretch your own mind, and very often you learn something new.
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Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.
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I would rather lose a good earring than be caught without make-up.
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When we show up in a city, we ask, 'Where's the best restaurant? What's the best beer?' You start doing that, and you get exposed to a lot of great stuff.
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The final phone call that said we're going to be picked up again was just a miracle. We've overcome the impossible and we're still pushing forward. I know John is smiling and so happy that he gets to watch us on TV.
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A completely disrespectful photographer was asked to stop taking photographs, and then said, 'I've got what I want. What are you going to do about it?' How would you feel if somebody walked up and started taking your photograph? I don't think you'd be very happy.
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There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good.
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No one politician should be allowed to judge the guilt, to charge an individual, to judge the guilt of an individual and to execute an individual.
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It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.
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Heartache is very fertile ground for song-making but so is happiness, so is absolute bliss.
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In Australia, I grew up watching 'The Mickey Mouse Club,' my son grew up watching 'Sesame Street,' my grandson's growing up watching 'Dora The Explorer.' So we are sort of saturated with American culture from the day we're born, and to those of those who do have an ear for it, it's second nature.
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I feel like you just need to keep writing until the writing itself just begins to take shape.
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Just because scientists have the knowledge to do it, the technology to do it, and some may even have a financial motive or other incentive to do it, does not make it right.
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A covenant made with God should be regarded not as restrictive but as protective.
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When I first moved to L.A. as a dancer, all I wanted to do was dance. I never even considered trying to act or direct.
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Good God, if our civilization were to sober up for a couple of days it'd die of remorse on the third.
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My idea is, I shine, you shine. If I'm doing well and you're with me, you do well.
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I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.
