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 LEWISWhat 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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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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I think people need housing. And there’s empty buildings, I think people should live in there.
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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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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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Do they have a right? You’re damn right they have a right!
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I have an old brain but a terrific memory.
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You think you can do it better? Hey, go right ahead. The stage is yours.
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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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Oscar Wilde said the rich and the poor are equal – they can both sleep under the bridge. Right?
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I went to all the Love-Ins. I took my kids. I enjoyed myself.
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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 probably worked every single entertainment medium, including some that don’t exist.
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America gets the politicians they deserve. That’s it. And you keep struggling.
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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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