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I never got a formal education. So my intellect is my common sense. I don't have anything else going for me. And my common sense opens the door to instinct. ↗

— Jerry Lewis

#common #common sense #door #education #else

I tell young comics, 'Do you want this badly enough? It's there. But you have to go get it. And if you think I'm going to give you the key to the lock of that door, there is no key, there is no lock, and there is no door.' ↗

— Jerry Lewis

#comics #door #enough #get #give

When I hit around 65, 66, I started to feel tremendous worth and incredible personal esteem. I was becoming very cognisant of my contribution to the American spirit of helping your fellow man and all of the good stuff. ↗

— Jerry Lewis

#american spirit #around #becoming #contribution #esteem

But the Committee for Industrial Organizations is here. It is now henceforth a definite instrumentality, destined greatly to influence the lives of our people and the internal and external course of the republic. ↗

— John L. Lewis

#course #definite #destined #external #greatly

In the steel industry the corporations generally have accepted collective bargaining and negotiated wage agreements with the Committee for Industrial Organization. ↗

— John L. Lewis

#agreements #bargaining #collective #collective bargaining #committee

Out of the agony and travail of economic America the Committee for Industrial Organization was born. ↗

— John L. Lewis

#america #born #committee #economic #industrial

The steel workers have now buried their dead, while the widows weep and watch their orphaned children become objects of public charity. The murder of these unarmed men has never been publicly rebuked by any authoritative officer of the state or federal government. ↗

— John L. Lewis

#armed men #authoritative #become #been #buried

The men in the steel industry who sacrificed their all were nor merely aiding their fellows at home but were adding strength to the cause of their comrades in all industry. ↗

— John L. Lewis

#cause #comrades #fellows #home #industry

This is true only because the purposes and objectives of the Committee for Industrial Organization find economic, social, political and moral justification in the hearts of the millions who are its members and the millions more who support it. ↗

— John L. Lewis

#committee #economic #find #hearts #industrial

I just want to complete my legacy. ↗

— Lennox Lewis

#i #just #legacy #want