Jerry Lewis Quotes

Postwar America was a very buttoned-up nation. Radio shows were run by censors, Presidents wore hats, ladies wore girdles. We came straight out of the blue - nobody was expecting anything like Martin and Lewis. A sexy guy and a monkey is how some people saw us.

Jerry Lewis

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BluePeopleSexyAmericaNobodyRun

You know I don't care if the world thinks I'm smart or not.

Joan Jett

SmartWorldCareYouKnowThinks

New York is for everybody; it's for the poor, it's for the middle-class, it's for the wealthy. We can't punish any one group and chase them away.

John Catsimatidis

New YorkNewGroupPoorAwayChase

You'll see a movie about someone you hate or someone you love. Will you see a movie about grandma making apple pies? No, you won't. Only if grandma has poisoned the neighbor or is suspected of poisoning the neighbor through her apple pies.

John McAfee

LoveHateSomeoneYouAppleWill

It has never made any sense to argue that, unique among the people of the world, Arabs are more concerned on a day-to-day basis about the treatment of people they don't know than they are about how they're going to put food on their own tables, or whether their sons will ever find a job.

John Podhoretz

FoodJobPeopleWorldUniqueFind

Luckily, I've had a very good working rapport will all my co-stars. Nobody has complained about me. No one's ever said they don't want to work with me.

Sonakshi Sinha

WorkGoodMeNobodySaidWant

I tend to be a lot more honest and transparent with employees than most bosses are. But I've had people tell me - even those who love working with me - that I'm terrifying, which is hard for me to imagine.

Stewart Butterfield

LovePeopleMeEmployeesMoreHard

I appear to be drawn to iconic characters and what they reflect back to our cultures.

Tom Hooper

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The seventies is what I love. Soft, touchable beauty is what I love.

Tom Ford

LoveBeautySeventiesSoftI Love

Having loving and supporting parents didn't make me feel any better about the possibility of seeing my personal life splashed across newspapers and tabloids.

Mary Cheney

LifeParentsMeBetterFeelSeeing

One of the things I find very little of in America - and certainly not on Broadway - are plays with political attitudes.

Michael Lindsay-Hogg

PoliticalAmericaFindLittleThings

Fame is the thirst of youth.

Lord Byron

YouthFamousFameThirst

I want to meet Denzel Washington when I go to the Oscars. Every man wants to see Halle Berry in person. And, you know, Dolly Parton... I wouldn't mind seeing Dolly Parton. She's from Tennessee, I'm from Tennessee.

Juicy J

ManMindYouSeeingPersonMeet

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