Al Lewis Quotes

• 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.

  Al Lewis

  Friday, Sunset, Kids

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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.

  Al Lewis

  Long, Opinion, Failing

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• America gets the politicians they deserve. That's it. And you keep struggling.

  Al Lewis

  Struggle, America, Politician

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• 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. That's it.

  Al Lewis

  Way, Uniqueness

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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 it better? Hey, go right ahead. The stage is yours.

  Al Lewis

  Thinking, Who I Am, Hey

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• I have an old brain but a terrific memory.

  Al Lewis

  Memories, Brain, Good Memories

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• If anything I consider myself an anarchist.

  Al Lewis

  Anarchist, Ifs

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• 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 18 years of radio.

  Al Lewis

  Years, Medicine, Radio

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• My secret for success? I don't know what the hell success means.

  Al Lewis

  Success, Congratulations, Mean

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• 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 call Wall Street thieves!

  Al Lewis

  Wall, Thinking, People

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• I went to all the Love-Ins. I took my kids. I enjoyed myself.

  Al Lewis

  Kids, Enjoyed

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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.

  Al Lewis

  Mother, Struggle, Writing

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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.

  Al Lewis

  Mom, Mother, Motivated

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• The struggle goes on. The victory is in the struggle, for me. And I accepted that a long time ago.

  Al Lewis

  Struggle, Long, Victory

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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. The most brutal war, the greatest amount of casualties that America's ever had.

  Al Lewis

  Country, War, America

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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.

  Al Lewis

  Needs, Radio, Satisfaction

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• I'm more important to me than any body you can mention. Do you know that?

  Al Lewis

  Important, Body, Knows

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• 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 damn right they have a right!

  Al Lewis

  Sleep, Bridges, Oscars

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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. Because if they weren't, they wouldn't be around as long as they have been and as strong as they have been.

  Al Lewis

  Strong, Class, Long

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• I was an organizer in the Food, Agricultural and Tobacco Workers Union down in North Carolina.

  Al Lewis

  Agriculture, North Carolina, Unions

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