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 LEWISI was an organizer in the Food, Agricultural and Tobacco Workers Union down in North Carolina.
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I have an old brain but a terrific memory.
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I probably worked every single entertainment medium, including some that don’t exist.
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I was an organizer in the Food, Agricultural and Tobacco Workers Union down in North Carolina.
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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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If you want to call them squatters, trespassers, hey, I call Wall Street thieves!
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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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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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