Lenny Bruce Quotes
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The violinist must possess the poet's gift of piercing the protective hide which grows on propagandists, stockbrokers and slave traders, to penetrate the deeper truth which lies within.
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I'm a big fan of Die Antwoord, which is a different style than I normally listen to.
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I have always been an avid reader of chemical literature, eager for what is new.
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At the U.N., I routinely encounter countries that do not want to impose sanctions or even to enforce those already on the books. The hard-line sanctions skeptics have their own self-interested reasons for opposing sanctions, but they ground their opposition in claims that America uses sanctions to inflict punishment for punishment's sake.
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Thanks be to God. Since my leaving the drinking of wine, I do find myself much better, and do mind my business better, and do spend less money, and less time lost in idle company.
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People should have literary and cultural taste and should not bomb hotels.
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'The Voice' is built on positivity. Once we started filming, I knew that America was really going to love it.
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People did not even then like to eat dirt, if they could see it.
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But I don't have a very good track record with royalty. My dress fell off in front of Prince Charles at the Prince's Trust, so I'm just living up to my reputation.
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And you must dare to do as many things as you dream of.
Nastassja Kinski -
To all the parents out there, thank you for allowing me to be a role model for your children. I really, really do not take that for granted.
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Every day, members of the LGBTQ community deal with challenges that most Americans will never have to face. These challenges appear in the workplace, in your homes, in your community, and even in the halls of Congress.
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People have said things about me, and wrote and criticized me about things in the past, but it goes in one ear and out the other.
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My grandfather was from Aberdare. He was a coal miner who emigrated and then continued mining in Pennsylvania.
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Nuclear tests poison the environment - and they also poison the political climate. They breed mistrust, isolation and fear.
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In terms of work, obviously acting is such a job that is very in the flesh kind of thing. It's your work, but it's your life, in a way. You can get so mixed up.
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I want people to see that I'm a real person, I overreact, I cry, I'm emotional. If I come across as perfect and in control, that wouldn't be who I really am.
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Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.
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I was embarrassed when a businessman friend asked, 'What's the yearly budget of your talk show? What's the per-episode budget?' And I looked at him with these blank, typical-model eyes and said, 'I don't know.' I call myself a businesswoman and I don't know that? So that is my goal next year-to really dissect the budget.
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What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.
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Quantum physics is no longer an abstract theory for specialists. We must now absolutely include it in our education and also in our culture.
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The state of childhood resonates with life inside a fantasy novel. If you have no control over how you spend large chunks of your day, or are at the mercy of flawed giant beings, then the desire to bend the laws of the world by magic is strong and deep.
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I'm not a comedian. I'm Lenny Bruce.
