"I turned down 'Some Like It Hot.' See how smart I am? I felt I couldn't bring anything funny to it. The outfit was funny. I don't need to compete with the wardrobe."

-- Jerry Lewis

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“I'd like to be remembered as somebody who persevered, who in many ways overcame, who recognized the importance of giving back, particularly to our youth, and as someone who tried to reach back and to catapult the next generation beyond him.”
“The government can back up its tastes and beliefs with the police power. That is why it cannot be permitted tastes and beliefs. Most emphatically, it cannot be permitted to define one group as being privileged over another group of people. It was wrong in the days of Jim Crow; it is wrong in the days of affirmative action.”
“I only judge people in one way. I like them or I don't. But I don't have preconceived ideas.”
“With the Law of Creation in play, you not only see the abundance and opportunity that surrounds you. You're able to TAKE it.”
“Dame Fortune is a fickle gipsy, And always blind, and often tipsy; Sometimes for years and years together, She 'll bless you with the sunniest weather, Bestowing honour, pudding, pence, You can't imagine why or whence; Then in a moment Presto, pass! Your joys are withered like the grass”

Source : Winthrop Mackworth Praed (1852). “Lillian: And Other Poems”, p.64
“Great crisis produce great men and great deeds of courage.”
“The brave man is he who overcomes not only his enemies but his pleasures”
“People high in conscientiousness get better grades in high school and college; they commit fewer crimes; and they stay married longer.”

Source : Paul Tough (2012). “How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character”, p.71, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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