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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.

Al Lewis

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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Brag Contribute Did Have Know
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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Absolute Do Get Love Something Uniqueness Way
The most brutal war, the greatest amount of casualties that America’s ever had.
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Amount Brutal Causal Country Ever Great Most Own War
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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Best Fail Failing Gave Long Opinion Shot
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.
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Dinner Every Fifty Friday Kid Runway Sixty Sunset Take Use Wait
The struggle goes on. The victory is in the struggle, for me. And I accepted that a long time ago.
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Accept Ago Lng Long Struggle Time Victory
I have an old brain but a terrific memory.
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Brain Good Memory Old Terrific
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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Immigrant Life Mom Mother Motivated Peasant Women Work
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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Audience Need Needs Radio Response Satisfaction Silent Television
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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Capital Certain Civil Country History Junky Most Period Right War World
I think people need housing. And there’s empty buildings, I think people should live in there.
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Building Empty House Live Need People Think
I was an organizer in the Food, Agricultural and Tobacco Workers Union down in North Carolina.
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Agriculture Country Down Food Organize Tobacco Union Worker
America gets the politicians they deserve. That’s it. And you keep struggling.
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Country Deserve Get Keep Politics Struggle
Do they have a right? You’re damn right they have a right!
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Do Have Right
I’m more important to me than any body you can mention. Do you know that?
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Body Important Know Mention More
If you want to call them squatters, trespassers, hey, I call Wall Street thieves!
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Call Squatter Street Thieve Want

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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