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 LEWISMy secret for success? I don’t know what the hell success means.
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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 was an organizer in the Food, Agricultural and Tobacco Workers Union down in North Carolina.
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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 anything I consider myself an anarchist.
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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 have an old brain but a terrific memory.
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America gets the politicians they deserve. That’s it. And you keep struggling.
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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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I worked the circus, carnival, I had my own medicine show, I worked 18 years of radio.
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I went to all the Love-Ins. I took my kids. I enjoyed myself.
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I’m more important to me than any body you can mention. Do you know that?
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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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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 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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