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 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 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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The struggle goes on. The victory is in the struggle, for me. And I accepted that a long time ago.
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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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You think you can do it better? Hey, go right ahead. The stage is yours.
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The most brutal war, the greatest amount of casualties that America’s ever had.
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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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If you want to call them squatters, trespassers, hey, I call Wall Street thieves!
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I have an old brain but a terrific memory.
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My secret for success? I don’t know what the hell success means.
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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 think people need housing. And there’s empty buildings, I think people should live in there.
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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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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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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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Do they have a right? You’re damn right they have a right!
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