You think you can do it better? Hey, go right ahead. The stage is yours.
AL LEWISWhat motivated me? My mother. My mother was an immigrant woman, a peasant woman, struggled all her life, worked in the garment center.
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If anything I consider myself an anarchist.
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Every Friday I used to have about fifty, sixty kids who would wait for me on Sunset Boulevard and I’d take them all to dinner. All runaways.
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My secret for success? I don’t know what the hell success means.
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I probably worked every single entertainment medium, including some that don’t exist.
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I know who I am. I don’t have to brag. I know what I contributed. I know what I did.
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I prefer that for my own satisfaction over radio, there’s no audience. TV, there’s no audience. I need the response of the audience, even if it’s a silent response.
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Understood what the struggle was about. My mother. Couldn’t read or write, but she had more sense than many a graduate from Harvard.
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Because if they weren’t, they wouldn’t be around as long as they have been and as strong as they have been.
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Oscar Wilde said the rich and the poor are equal – they can both sleep under the bridge. Right?
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The most brutal war, the greatest amount of casualties that America’s ever had.
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The United States, per capita, at a certain period in its history, had the most junkies of any country ever in the world – right after the Civil War.
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The ruling class is smarter than you, and they’re more creative. And if you forget that lesson, you go down the drain.
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If you want to call them squatters, trespassers, hey, I call Wall Street thieves!
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As long as you gave it your best shot, even if in the opinion of others ‘you failed,’ you didn’t fail.
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What motivated me? My mother. My mother was an immigrant woman, a peasant woman, struggled all her life, worked in the garment center.
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