What motivated me? My mother. My mother was an immigrant woman, a peasant woman, struggled all her life, worked in the garment center.
AL LEWISWhat motivated me? My mother. My mother was an immigrant woman, a peasant woman, struggled all her life, worked in the garment center.
AL LEWISThe ruling class is smarter than you, and they’re more creative. And if you forget that lesson, you go down the drain.
AL LEWISI know who I am. I don’t have to brag. I know what I contributed. I know what I did.
AL LEWISAs long as you gave it your best shot, even if in the opinion of others ‘you failed,’ you didn’t fail.
AL LEWISDo they have a right? You’re damn right they have a right!
AL LEWISI’m more important to me than any body you can mention. Do you know that?
AL LEWISAmerica gets the politicians they deserve. That’s it. And you keep struggling.
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 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 have an old brain but a terrific memory.
AL LEWISI went to all the Love-Ins. I took my kids. I enjoyed myself.
AL LEWISIf you want to call them squatters, trespassers, hey, I call Wall Street thieves!
AL LEWISI probably worked every single entertainment medium, including some that don’t exist.
AL LEWISI worked the circus, carnival, I had my own medicine show, I worked 18 years of radio.
AL LEWISIf anything I consider myself an anarchist.
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.
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