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.

Bruce Bruce

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• Humor
• Asian
• Latino

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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.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Long
  • Run
  • Trash

• My writing is a very authentic journey of discovery. I'm going out there to learn who I am. My readers, consequently, take the same journey as my protagonist.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Writing
  • Journey
  • Discovery

• 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.

  

  Ed Markey
  • Death
  • Knowledge
  • Smoking

• 'Life as a Dog' is when I really started to feel comfortable, like I had the due north on my compass.

  

  K. Flay
  • Life
  • Dog
  • Compass

• If you calculate 15 minutes a day to shave, that is 5,000 minutes a year spent shaving.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Day
  • Year
  • Shaving

• 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.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Live
  • Man
  • Perfect

• You shouldn't be ashamed of your pain. You have the right to have your pain treated.

  

  Naomi Judd
  • You
  • Pain
  • Right

• 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.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Music
  • Beautiful
  • Song

• 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.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Country
  • America
  • Color

• 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.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Age
  • Memories
  • Old Age

• 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.

  

  Demetrious Johnson
  • Why
  • Business

• The thing is, work is the thing I love the most.

  

  Katharine McPhee
  • Work

• Give me liberty or a bran muffin!

  

  Colin Mochrie

• I don't believe you have to have eating disorders and mental illness to screw up.

  

  Kirstie Alley
  • Up
  • Believe

• 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.

  

  Marley Dias
  • Black
  • Space

• Rap is really just too conventional. Everybody does the same thing. No one ever pushes the box.

  

  Tyler, The Creator
  • Rap

• 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.

  

  Jacques Pepin
  • People
  • Book
  • Friends

• 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.

  

  Ann Nocenti
  • Men
  • Writing
  • Women

• I read more books for research purposes, whether it's a fictionalized biography of Johannes Gutenberg or a stack of urban fantasies.

  

  Jim C. Hines

• I remember listening to Miles Davis in the car with my dad. I had just done my Grade 5 piano exam, and I was quite cocky. I said, 'It sounds like he's played the wrong note there.' I remember the look of horror on my dad's face, and thinking, 'Wow, I have to figure out why that is not acceptable.'

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Thinking
  • Done
  • Why

• People are feeling and sensing a return of anti-Semitism - even in Europe, which, seventy years after the Holocaust, is a very scary thing. I think they are feeling that Israel is very isolated and doesn't always get what they see as fair treatment in the European media.

  

  Jonathan Sacks
  • People
  • Feeling
  • Scary

• I have a lot of repression. So repression is what I make movies about.

  

  Ang Lee
  • Movie
  • Actors
  • Repression

• I didn't want the lyrics to be about specific things in my life, I wanted them to be about generalised experiences I'd had. So when I'm writing about relationships or somebody leaving you or something, a lot of lyrics are partly about failed relationships I'd had, but they were also about my Dad, and being abandoned as a kid.

  

  Zachary Cole Smith
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Dad

• 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.

  

  Bruce Bruce
  • Comedy
  • Color
  • Humor