As long as you gave it your best shot, even if in the opinion of others ‘you failed,’ you didn’t fail.
AL LEWISEvery 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.
More Al Lewis Quotes
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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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Do they have a right? You’re damn right they have a right!
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If you want to call them squatters, trespassers, hey, I call Wall Street thieves!
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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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I worked the circus, carnival, I had my own medicine show, I worked 18 years of radio.
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You think you can do it better? Hey, go right ahead. The stage is yours.
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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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My secret for success? I don’t know what the hell success means.
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I went to all the Love-Ins. I took my kids. I enjoyed myself.
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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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America gets the politicians they deserve. That’s it. And you keep struggling.
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If anything I consider myself an anarchist.
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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 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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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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