Al Lewis Quotes

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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. You think you can do…
• 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.…
• I think people need housing. And there's empty buildings, I think people should live in there. If you want to call them squatters, trespassers, hey,…
• I was an organizer in the Food, Agricultural and Tobacco Workers Union down in North Carolina.
• What motivated me? My mother. My mother was an immigrant woman, a peasant woman, struggled all her life, worked in the garment center.
• The struggle goes on. The victory is in the struggle, for me. And I accepted that a long time ago.
• I went to all the Love-Ins. I took my kids. I enjoyed myself.
• I have an old brain but a terrific memory.
• America gets the politicians they deserve. That's it. And you keep struggling.
• As long as you gave it your best shot, even if in the opinion of others you failed, you didn't fail.
• But 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.…
• 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…
• I probably worked every single entertainment medium, including some that don't exist. I worked the circus, carnival, I had my own medicine show, I worked…
• I'm for everyone having the opportunity to accept a $150,000 bribe.
• I'm more important to me than any body you can mention. Do you know that?
• I've been in the struggle over seventy years - it doesn't bother me I may not win.
• My secret for success? I don't know what the hell success means.
• Oscar Wilde said the rich and the poor are equal - they can both sleep under the bridge. Right? Do they have a right? You're…
• The ruling class is smarter than you, and they're more creative. And if you forget that lesson, you go down the drain. Because if they…
• The United States, per capita, at a certain period in its history, had the most junkies of any country ever in the world - right…

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