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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If you have a friend, things are better than if you didn't have a friend.
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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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President Reagan, Jack Kemp and other advocates of supply-side economics understood that pro-growth tax, spending and economic policies were essential to America's long-term economic and fiscal health.
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I'm very proud of my Nigerian heritage. I wasn't fortunate enough to be raised in a heavy Nigerian environment, because my parents were always working. My father was with D.C. Cabs and my mother worked in fast food and was a nurse.
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There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
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The gravitation constant is the same always. But the economic constants-these elasticities of demand and supply-depending, as they do, upon human consciousness, are liable to vary. The constitution of the atom, as it were, and not merely its position, changes under the influence of environment.
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I was obsessed with movies when I was younger. During the summer, I would go by myself to a theater down the street from my house. I saw every comedy or science fiction movie that came out. My kids love going to the movies, but 3D scares them.
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I was an organizer in the Food, Agricultural and Tobacco Workers Union down in North Carolina.
