I worked the circus, carnival, I had my own medicine show, I worked 18 years of radio.
AL LEWISIf anything I consider myself an anarchist.
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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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The struggle goes on. The victory is in the struggle, for me. And I accepted that a long time ago.
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Do they have a right? You’re damn right they have a right!
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I probably worked every single entertainment medium, including some that don’t exist.
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You think you can do it better? Hey, go right ahead. The stage is yours.
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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 think people need housing. And there’s empty buildings, I think people should live in there.
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Because if they weren’t, they wouldn’t be around as long as they have been and as strong as they have been.
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I have an old brain but a terrific memory.
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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 know who I am. I don’t have to brag. I know what I contributed. I know what I did.
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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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I’m more important to me than any body you can mention. Do you know that?
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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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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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