What motivated me? My mother. My mother was an immigrant woman, a peasant woman, struggled all her life, worked in the garment center.
AL LEWISAs 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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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 was an organizer in the Food, Agricultural and Tobacco Workers Union down in North Carolina.
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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 have an old brain but a terrific memory.
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If anything I consider myself an anarchist.
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I went to all the Love-Ins. I took my kids. I enjoyed myself.
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My secret for success? I don’t know what the hell success means.
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America gets the politicians they deserve. That’s it. And you keep struggling.
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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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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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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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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 most brutal war, the greatest amount of casualties that America’s ever had.
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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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