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 LEWISAmerica gets the politicians they deserve. That’s it. And you keep struggling.
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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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The most brutal war, the greatest amount of casualties that America’s ever had.
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I’m more important to me than any body you can mention. Do you know that?
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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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America gets the politicians they deserve. That’s it. And you keep struggling.
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My secret for success? I don’t know what the hell success means.
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I have an old brain but a terrific memory.
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I worked the circus, carnival, I had my own medicine show, I worked 18 years of radio.
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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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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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Oscar Wilde said the rich and the poor are equal – they can both sleep under the bridge. Right?
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Do they have a right? You’re damn right they have a right!
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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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I think people need housing. And there’s empty buildings, I think people should live in there.
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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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