America gets the politicians they deserve. That’s it. And you keep struggling.
AL LEWISThe ruling class is smarter than you, and they’re more creative. And if you forget that lesson, you go down the drain.
More Al Lewis Quotes
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I probably worked every single entertainment medium, including some that don’t exist.
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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 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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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 think people need housing. And there’s empty buildings, I think people should live in there.
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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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Do they have a right? You’re damn right they have a right!
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The most brutal war, the greatest amount of casualties that America’s ever had.
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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’m more important to me than any body you can mention. Do you know that?
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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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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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Because if they weren’t, they wouldn’t be around as long as they have been and as strong as they have been.
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You think you can do it better? Hey, go right ahead. The stage is yours.
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If you want to call them squatters, trespassers, hey, I call Wall Street thieves!
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