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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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 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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My dad is truly the person who always made me believe in myself, to appreciate that I was smart.
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So I find the fascination, the love, the incredible skill and everything to do with acting, writing plays, and doing them, just darling. Lovely. I love actors.
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I think you've got to take your time and make sure you're making choices that are smart for you.
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To oppose something is to maintain it.
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I would consider myself to be a moderate Republican, but more important than that, I believe our system of government is the best system there is... and while I have no illusions of changing the world, I've had good opportunities in life, and I believe there's an obligation to give something back by participating.
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I'm honestly kind of scared of horror films. My girlfriend always tries to expose them to me. Being in a scary movie and seeing all the fake blood and stuff definitely takes away from the magic and kind of humanizes scary movies to me now, though.
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I keep everything that is most important to me close to me: my family, my bible, my X-Box - just kidding.
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I've always showed up. If I got paid.
