The ruling class is smarter than you, and they’re more creative. And if you forget that lesson, you go down the drain.
AL LEWISAs long as you gave it your best shot, even if in the opinion of others ‘you failed,’ you didn’t fail.
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 was an organizer in the Food, Agricultural and Tobacco Workers Union down in North Carolina.
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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 went to all the Love-Ins. I took my kids. I enjoyed myself.
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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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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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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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If anything I consider myself an anarchist.
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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’m more important to me than any body you can mention. Do you know that?
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America gets the politicians they deserve. That’s it. And you keep struggling.
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Do they have a right? You’re damn right they have a right!
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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.
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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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