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Quotes of Al Lewis (Usa)1817-1878 British Writer
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In a convoy, you had 200-300 Victory Ships. Henry J. Kaiser made millions on those. And if you saw guys swimming in the water, you never stopped to pick them up. You let them die there. (unknown)
It was the basis of the original Coca-Cola, where they made their fortune. Then in 1919, they passed the Harrison Act, where they made cocaine illegal, so the OTC, the "over-the-counter drugs," the base became alcohol. (unknown)
Just anything where I can work in front of an audience. So I prefer a circus, a medicine show, vaudeville, burlesque. (audiences)
Like 600 other sea ships in a convoy. You never knew what you carried. You could have been carrying potatoes, which of course we weren't, or you could have been carrying explosives. (unknown)
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Most young people think television was around during the cave man days, but that's a "Johnny-Come-Lately," television. (television)
My mother was a worker, a floor lady, a shop lady in the garment center here in New York. (mother)
Numbers are scary. Your problem is to get ten thousand people out on the street the first time they go to bulldoze that garden. And you won't. But that's not a defeat. (unknown)
People don't really understand their role in society. (people)
That's how I met Charlie Manson. He wanted to be in the music business. He babysat my three kids. He didn't chop no heads off, he was very nice with me. (celebration)
The day that they attempt to bulldoze the first garden, if ten thousand people are standing there, the garden will never be bulldozed. (unknown)
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. (unknown)
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. (america)
There's a part of me in everything. Car 54's Schnauzer is a part of me. I can't do you. It's a composite, a collage of my whole life. It's Al Lewis. (unknown)
There's nothing wrong with being naive. But, after doing x amount of time, don't throw your hands up in the air, because, you see, everybody wants the "the win," they want it today. It doesn't happen. (unknown)
Understood what the struggle was about. My mother. Couldn't read or write, but she had more sense than many a graduate from Harvard. (mother)
We would storm the Home Relief Centers, that or this person didn't get a check for eight dollars or something, and get hit on the head. (unknown)
What motivated me? My mother. My mother was an immigrant woman, a peasant woman, struggled all her life, worked in the garment center. (mother)
You can poke fun at 'em, you can do satire, but they work 24 hours a day. It's like Lord Acton said: "Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely." (unknown)
You follow me around and you will see total strangers greet me. Junkies, Wall Street types. That was not my aim. (unknown)
You have to understand, the power structure and the errand boys, the guys who carry the bedpans for the power structure, the politicians, councilmen, congressmen, senators, whatever, they only understand one thing: numbers. (unknown)
You see, a junkie once told me an unanswerable question. He said: "I take this junk so the ___ that's in front of me and the ___ that I smell disappears. What are you gonna replace it with?" (unknown)
You see, the thing is, you're "Johnny-Come-Latelies." Like in the Sixties. Everybody in this society wants the quick fix, like the junkie that we just talked about. So do the radicals, whatever you want to call them, a bumper sticker. (unknown)
You write about police brutality. Go back to 1909, you'll see about police brutality, it's not something new. (police)
You see, what happens with you "Johnny-Come-Latelies" - and I'm not personalizing - is like you take people of the Sixties. After five or ten years, they didn't get the victory, "I'll take this job down on Wall Street and make the money." (people)
You see, I'm a lot smarter than the people who interview me. I'm very serious now. I created a character that people love. (unknown)
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