Bruce Bruce Quotes
My comedy has no color, it's for everybody, black, white, Latino, Asian. It's not a pro-black show, not a def jam show; it's just straight, wholesome type of humor.
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But in the long run we're not going to be able to keep out of state trash away from Pennsylvania.
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It is common knowledge that smoking is considered one of the nation's leading causes of preventable death, but it's less widely known that cigarettes are also the leading cause of fatal fires.
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'Life as a Dog' is when I really started to feel comfortable, like I had the due north on my compass.
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If you calculate 15 minutes a day to shave, that is 5,000 minutes a year spent shaving.
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My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind - intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.
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You shouldn't be ashamed of your pain. You have the right to have your pain treated.
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The beautiful thing about hip-hop is it's like an audio collage. You can take any form of music and do it in a hip-hop way and it'll be a hip-hop song. That's the only music you can do that with.
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With segregation, with the isolation of the injured and the robbed, comes the concentration of disadvantage. An unsegregated America might see poverty, and all its effects, spread across the country with no particular bias toward skin color. Instead, the concentration of poverty has been paired with a concentration of melanin.
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What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.
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I know why the UFC runs the business the way they do. I know why Conor McGregor makes a base pay of $3 million. But I think I justify my pay with my skill set, and I've always been willing to promote my brand.
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The thing is, work is the thing I love the most.
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I'm working to create a space where it feels easy to include and imagine black girls and make black girls like me the main characters of our lives.
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Rap is really just too conventional. Everybody does the same thing. No one ever pushes the box.
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When I wrote 'Fast Food My Way' in 2004, I hoped that my friends would prepare my recipes. Now, more people cook from that book than any other I've written in the past 30 years.
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When I first started writing comics, in the way-back days, Typhoid Mary was my explosive response to women characters in comics - I made her an innocent virginal type, a clever, dark, liberated woman, and as Bloody Mary, a feminist bent of punishing men - all in one character. She was an instinctual rather than a calculated creation.
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My mom used to play a lot of super character-y parts... so I was sort of raised to be a clown.
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I'd like to see a ghost. It would confirm there's an afterlife.
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Housing is a relatively small sector of the economy, and its decline should be self-correcting.
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I didn't want to be this four-chord acoustic singer songwriter because that stuff just got so old to me.
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There's obviously a lot of tragedy in comedy; I really enjoy the paradox of what a really good comedy is.
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The fact that 'A Dirty Job' has comedy and supernatural horror in it, that both are woven in and out of it with a whimsical tone, despite the fact that it's about death, makes it hard to characterize with standard genre labels - but I have no problem with that. I'd call it a funny story about death, and leave it at that.
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I have three ex-wives. I can't remember any of their names, so I just call 'em Plaintiff.
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My comedy has no color, it's for everybody, black, white, Latino, Asian. It's not a pro-black show, not a def jam show; it's just straight, wholesome type of humor.
