Lenny Bruce Quotes

Today, I give my daughter what I really didn't have as a kid: all the silly, dumb, extravagant, frilly, nonfunctional toys I can force on her. She probably wants an encyclopedia.

Lenny Bruce

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: comedian
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 13, 1925 - August 3, 1966

Topics

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Right here at home, we have seen what happens when a politician breaks that public trust, when they are dishonest and corrupt.

Joe Garcia

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I wanted to be in New York because I wanted to be on 'SNL.' I spent a lot of time wanting to be on 'Saturday Night Live' as a kid. That's what I wanted.

Jenny Slate

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Other people have often had more faith in me than I had in myself - I never thought I could pull off Roberta Muldoon in 'The World According to Garp,' or 'Of Mice and Men's' Lennie as one of my first acting jobs.

John Lithgow

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The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse.

Jules Renard

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All things share the same breath - the beast, the tree, the man... the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports.

Chief Seattle

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I think people ragging on me is kind of a form of flattery.

Chord Overstreet

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I want to paint Montreal as a rather fantastic city, which it was, because nobody knows today what it was like. And I'm one of the last survivors, or rapidly becoming one.

Christopher Plummer

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I was raised in Montreal, which is very multicultural, very liberal. Then I moved to New York.

Antoni Porowski

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Prejudice and discrimination have always been a big part of my life. When I was 6, I got beat up and called dirty Jew boy because they thought I looked Jewish.

Philip Zimbardo

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An American citizen is not going to be extradited to Japan for saving whales.

Paul Watson

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You don't really have to go anywhere in particular in New York City to have a good time. In every part of town, there's always something going on. It helps to know people there, too, because everything changes so fast, and they will be able to point out what's hot this month.

Tibor Fischer

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I'm engaged: I'm interested in other people. I think that's just as important as knowing how to do the job.

Thomas Schlamme

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