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Lenny Bruce Quotes

When you're eight years old nothing is your business.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Funny Business You Nothing Old Your

I got good notice from that show, and on the last day of filming Townies, Twentieth Century Fox called wanting to meet with me about a development deal.

Good Day Me Meet Development Fox

I paint because I love to paint. If someone buys the prints or whatever, so be it, but it's not my main form of business. As a performer, that is my main form of business.

Love Business Someone Whatever Paint

Whether you accept or reject it, God's Love for you is permanent.

Love God You Accept Permanent

The difference between playing a positive and a negative role is only in the portrayal.

Positive Negative Difference Role

Very bad things follow when we kid ourselves that we're naturally rational, rather than the more humbling truth: naturally emotional.

Truth Bad More Follow Kid Emotional

When I started, you had cochineal food colouring that would turn things pink, but you could never make it red. Now, red is no problem - and if you look at supermarket bakery sections since 'Bake Off' began, you can get everything.

Food Red Pink Problem You Look

Indeed, our everyday world presents intellectual challenges just as daunting as those of the cosmos and the quantum, and that is where 99 per cent of scientists focus their efforts. Even the smallest insect, with its intricate structure, is far more complex than either an atom or a star.

Focus Challenges World Intellectual

Being 16 is such a great age because I'm still really young, and I'll still have a lot of chances. But the Olympics only come every four years, so you don't want to waste an opportunity.

Age Opportunity Great You Young

I certainly believe in limited government but protecting children against injury abuse is certainly inside my sphere of things that the government should do.

Children Government Believe Inside

I had a long time admiration for the Jewish people. Especially with their long time of courage, taking so much abuse for so long. I was only seven years old, but I could easily see the ungodly treatment that the white folks were handing the poor Jewish family whom I worked for.

Louis Armstrong

Family Courage Time People Long See

I'm first and foremost a scientist.

First Scientist Foremost

I do think that there is both a very powerful sense of entitlement and a kind of bubble of wealth which makes it hard for the people at the very top to understand the travails of the middle class.

Chrystia Freeland

People Think Powerful Wealth Bubble

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