Jerry Lee Lewis Quotes
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Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.
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One of the biggest lessons I've learned during my time on 'Oprah' is that everyone wants to be heard. We all want to have our humanity acknowledged - to have others see us for who we truly are. We all want to know that we are valued, we are heard, we are understood.
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Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail.
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I'm waiting for them to make 'Thundercats'. I would love to be Cheetara.
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The thing is, any time anyone invades anyone on stage, the invader always looks really bad no matter what point they're proving - obviously that applies to myself too.
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I don't like books that play to the gallery, but I've become more concerned with telling a story as clearly and engagingly as I can.
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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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We tend to talk about death as if it is losing a battle, but that assumes living is winning and dying is not.
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There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.
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I love Brazilians. Brazilians ought to be made compulsory at 15.
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I don't think of reflection on dark things as necessarily dark.
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Without Khomeini, we would not be where we are. What a pity that, when pregnant with him, his mother did not choose to have an abortion.
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I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.
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I wasn't in shape at all before I decided to do boxing. I wasn't an athlete. Before boxing, I would go to the gym for a month and stop.
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I'll always find the things that make a role complicated!
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I feel very English. I'm proud of it. I wanted there to be a thread connecting everything, the songs, clothes, artwork, even the string arrangements. It all creates a certain atmosphere.
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I've always romanticized the late '40s and '50s - the cars, jazz, the open roads and lack of pollution. Now there are more vehicles, less hitchhikers, more billboards and power lines and stuff. People wrote wonderful long letters that took months to receive, and now everything is email.
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People come up to me... concerned... that I'll reproduce.
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I am capable of directing, and I am good at that. In order to have longevity as actors, you have to keep changing it up a bit; you have to bring other talents to the table. I want this to be another feather in my cap instead of replacing what I already have.
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I'm not interested in my legacy. I made up a word: 'live-acy.' I'm more interested in living.
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I've learned to be pragmatic, but I don't sacrifice my principles, my values.
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In the great flood of human life that is spawned upon the earth, it is not often that a man is born.
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I've always showed up. If I got paid.
