I was an organizer in the Food, Agricultural and Tobacco Workers Union down in North Carolina.
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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My secret for success? I don’t know what the hell success means.
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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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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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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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The most brutal war, the greatest amount of casualties that America’s ever had.
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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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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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I’m more important to me than any body you can mention. Do you know that?
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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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I have an old brain but a terrific memory.
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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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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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