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 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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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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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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Do they have a right? You’re damn right they have a right!
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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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You think you can do it better? Hey, go right ahead. The stage is yours.
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I went to all the Love-Ins. I took my kids. I enjoyed myself.
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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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I’m more important to me than any body you can mention. Do you know that?
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If you want to call them squatters, trespassers, hey, I call Wall Street thieves!
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The most brutal war, the greatest amount of casualties that America’s ever had.
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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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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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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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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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