America gets the politicians they deserve. That’s it. And you keep struggling.
AL LEWISThe ruling class is smarter than you, and they’re more creative. And if you forget that lesson, you go down the drain.
More Al Lewis Quotes
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I worked the circus, carnival, I had my own medicine show, I worked 18 years of radio.
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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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I’m more important to me than any body you can mention. Do you know that?
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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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I was an organizer in the Food, Agricultural and Tobacco Workers Union down in North Carolina.
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I probably worked every single entertainment medium, including some that don’t exist.
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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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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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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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My secret for success? I don’t know what the hell success means.
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I think people need housing. And there’s empty buildings, I think people should live in there.
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The most brutal war, the greatest amount of casualties that America’s ever had.
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But find something that you absolutely love doing. And then get to love the way you do it. That’s the uniqueness of all of us. That’s it.
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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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