Al Lewis Quotes
I was an organizer in the Food, Agricultural and Tobacco Workers Union down in North Carolina.
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It's a weird thing to say you want people to be sick of your song, but I guess that's what happens if your song goes really well.
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You know, one of the only times I ever wrote about art was the obituary of Warhol that I did for the Village Voice.
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I've concentrated for a long time on English films because I've got two kids but my oldest son is 11 and I think I'm going to be away for about four months of year now.
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The great opportunity belongs to him who can see it, to him who can grasp it. The better part of your chance is right inside of you.
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I usually have about four books on the go - a bedside book, a lavatory book, a downstairs book, and the book in my study that I read sneakily while I should be writing. Short stories for the lavatory, obviously.
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I am not that thrilled about the way our records sound anyway. Don't get me wrong, I work hard on them and I want them to sound fantastic but I'm happy to have another interpretation of them anyway.
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The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.
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My family didn't have any money growing up. I'm just a girl from the ghetto; from Indio, California.
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The difference between the denominational system and the public school system is all the difference between bolstering them up on the one hand and letting them alone of the other.
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Creative people are more prone to depression.
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Wisdom is a sacred communion.
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A lot of the Republicans wanted exactly what Barack Obama wanted, exactly what Nancy Pelosi wanted, exactly what Harry Reid wanted, which is to raise the debt ceiling, but they wanted to be able to tell what they view as their foolish, gullible constituents back home they didn't do it.
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Poor privileged white men. Their stranglehold on power is slowly being loosened.
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Sometimes some of these little side excursions are useful and I manage to fit them in the book somewhere.
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I have a tendency to really stuff things. I don't really express, you know? Like, express certain feelings and stuff.
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Taking charge of your own learning is a part of taking charge of your life, which is the sine qua non in becoming an integrated person.
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Striking out Ruth and Gehrig in succession was too big an order.
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Deep down, I happen to be very shallow.
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Chinese people as consumers, while they've always valued food and beverage for the health food qualities, they are also now wanting it in terms of other values: 'Does this speak about my position in society? Am I now middle-class, and does this matter to me?'
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I've learned not to let it be the end of the world if a boy doesn't like you. I used to put so much effort into boys. I started playing guitar because I wanted to impress this boy. Then, I ended up in love with guitar and I didn't care about the boy anymore.
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Everything you stand for, believe in, experience and aspire to is the result of thought. And thought is destructive because it is nothing more than a protective mechanism, programmed to protect its own interests at all costs.
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I look forward to hosting an Iftar dinner celebrating Ramadan here at the White House later this week, and wish you a blessed month.
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Reading is such a personal thing to me. I'd much rather give someone a gift certificate to a bookstore, and let that person choose his or her own books.
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I was an organizer in the Food, Agricultural and Tobacco Workers Union down in North Carolina.
