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.
AL LEWISThe 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.
AL LEWISI was an organizer in the Food, Agricultural and Tobacco Workers Union down in North Carolina.
AL LEWISEvery 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 know who I am. I don’t have to brag. I know what I contributed. I know what I did.
AL LEWISBut 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.
AL LEWISYou think you can do it better? Hey, go right ahead. The stage is yours.
AL LEWISUnderstood what the struggle was about. My mother. Couldn’t read or write, but she had more sense than many a graduate from Harvard.
AL LEWISBecause if they weren’t, they wouldn’t be around as long as they have been and as strong as they have been.
AL LEWISDo they have a right? You’re damn right they have a right!
AL LEWISI 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.
AL LEWISI worked the circus, carnival, I had my own medicine show, I worked 18 years of radio.
AL LEWISI probably worked every single entertainment medium, including some that don’t exist.
AL LEWISI’m more important to me than any body you can mention. Do you know that?
AL LEWISIf you want to call them squatters, trespassers, hey, I call Wall Street thieves!
AL LEWISMy secret for success? I don’t know what the hell success means.
AL LEWISThe 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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