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 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.
AL LEWISBecause if they weren’t, they wouldn’t be around as long as they have been and as strong as they have been.
AL LEWISThe struggle goes on. The victory is in the struggle, for me. And I accepted that a long time ago.
AL LEWISIf you want to call them squatters, trespassers, hey, I call Wall Street thieves!
AL LEWISYou think you can do it better? Hey, go right ahead. The stage is yours.
AL LEWISThe 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.
AL LEWISI have an old brain but a terrific memory.
AL LEWISI 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.
AL LEWISI’m more important to me than any body you can mention. Do you know that?
AL LEWISThe most brutal war, the greatest amount of casualties that America’s ever had.
AL LEWISMy secret for success? I don’t know what the hell success means.
AL LEWISWhat motivated me? My mother. My mother was an immigrant woman, a peasant woman, struggled all her life, worked in the garment center.
AL LEWISI worked the circus, carnival, I had my own medicine show, I worked 18 years of radio.
AL LEWISUnderstood what the struggle was about. My mother. Couldn’t read or write, but she had more sense than many a graduate from Harvard.
AL LEWISI went to all the Love-Ins. I took my kids. I enjoyed myself.
AL LEWISAs 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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