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.
AL LEWISThe struggle goes on. The victory is in the struggle, for me. And I accepted that a long time ago.
More Al Lewis Quotes
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America gets the politicians they deserve. That’s it. And you keep struggling.
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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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The most brutal war, the greatest amount of casualties that America’s ever had.
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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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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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I worked the circus, carnival, I had my own medicine show, I worked 18 years of radio.
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My secret for success? I don’t know what the hell success means.
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If anything I consider myself an anarchist.
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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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You think you can do it better? Hey, go right ahead. The stage is yours.
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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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I think people need housing. And there’s empty buildings, I think people should live in there.
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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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Oscar Wilde said the rich and the poor are equal – they can both sleep under the bridge. Right?
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