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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

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Al Lewis
Age: 82 †
Born: 1923
Born: April 30
Died: 2006
Died: February 3
Actor
Film Actor
Politician
Psychologist
Radio Personality
Television Actor
New York City
New York
Victory
Goes
Struggle
Long
Time
Accepted

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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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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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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!
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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.
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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.
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I was an organizer in the Food, Agricultural and Tobacco Workers Union down in North Carolina.
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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.
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If anything I consider myself an anarchist.
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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!
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I have an old brain but a terrific memory.
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America gets the politicians they deserve. That's it. And you keep struggling.
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My secret for success? I don't know what the hell success means.
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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.
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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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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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I'm more important to me than any body you can mention. Do you know that?
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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.
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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.
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