Lenny Bruce Quotes - Page 4

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• Once you sleep on feathers you can't go back to sleeping on the floor.

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  Sleep, Feathers

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• Certain things are complete superstition and have no validity at all in the Bible. Yeah. They're just the antithesis of everything that is correct intellectually.

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  Atheism, Superstitions, Yeah

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• Anyone who does anything for pleasure to indulge his selfish soul will surely burn in Hell.

  Lenny Bruce

  Selfish, Soul, Religion

  Lenny Bruce (1992). “How to Talk Dirty and Influence People”, p.130, Simon and Schuster

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• What you end up with is outrageousness without the laugh - comedy as electro shock therapy.

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  Laughing, Comedy, Ends

  "The Lenny Bruce Interview, Jill Bourque’s How We First Met and Stage Time With Steven Alan Green". jewishjournal.com. April 7, 2013.

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• If you can take the hot lead enema, then you can cast the first stone.

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  Stones, Firsts, Hot

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• I'm sure that half the buzz from smoking grass was the fact that it was so illegal.

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  Smoking, Half, Buzz

  "The Lenny Bruce Interview, Jill Bourque’s How We First Met and Stage Time With Steven Alan Green". jewishjournal.com. April 7, 2013.

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• I wanted out of the navy so bad in '45, I faked homo to get a discharge. It didn't matter that the Germans surrendered, I knew we were heading to Japan and I was done with that scene.

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  Japan, Navy, Done

  "The Lenny Bruce Interview, Jill Bourque’s How We First Met and Stage Time With Steven Alan Green". jewishjournal.com. April 7, 2013.

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• Miami Beach is where neon goes to die.

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  Funny, Witty, Beach

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• The crooks downtown figured out that comedy is like a hammer. It can put up a barn and it can knock down a wall. So they bought it outright and marketed it as Comedy Central.

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  Wall, Barns, Crooks

  "The Lenny Bruce Interview, Jill Bourque’s How We First Met and Stage Time With Steven Alan Green". jewishjournal.com. April 7, 2013.

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• TV is just advertising for your live gig, so I'm playing whichever show is gonna get me the biggest crowd.

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  Crowds, Gigs, Tvs

  "The Lenny Bruce Interview, Jill Bourque’s How We First Met and Stage Time With Steven Alan Green". jewishjournal.com. April 7, 2013.

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• If you live in New York, even if you're Catholic, you're Jewish

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  New York, Catholic, Ifs

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• ...Catholicism is like Howard Johnson, and what they have are these franchises and they give all these people different franchises in the different countries but they have one government, and when you buy the Howard Johnson franchise you can apply it to the geography - whatever's cool for that area - and then you, you know, pay the bread to the main office.

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  Country, Government, People

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• I credit the motion picture industry as the strongest environmental factor in molding the children of my day.

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  Children, Environmental Factors, Credit

  Lenny Bruce (1992). “How to Talk Dirty and Influence People”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• The role of a comedian is to make the audience laugh, at a minimum of once every fifteen seconds.

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  Laughing, Comedian, Fifteen

  "Lenny Bruce: Swear to Tell the Truth". Documentary, Biography, Comedy, 1998.

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• There is only what is and that's it. What should be is a dirty lie.

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  Lying, Dirty, Should

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• I'm not a comedian. I'm Lenny Bruce.

  Lenny Bruce

  Comedian

  "Lenny Bruce: Swear to Tell the Truth". Documentary, Biography, Comedy, 1998.

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• There's always a down side with any freedom. It's not just homosexual freedom, but any sexual freedom comes at a price, and that is usually art.

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  Art, Sides, Homosexual

  "The Lenny Bruce Interview, Jill Bourque’s How We First Met and Stage Time With Steven Alan Green". jewishjournal.com. April 7, 2013.

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• The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can't fake it... try to fake three laughs in an hour - ha ha ha ha ha - they'll take you away, man. You can't.

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  Funny, Happiness, Fake People

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• Communism is just one big telephone company.

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  Telephones, Communism, Bigs

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• Even if you are Catholic, if you live in New York you're Jewish. If you live in Butte, Montana, you are going to be goyish even if you are Jewish.

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  New York, Catholic, Montana

  Lenny Bruce (1992). “How to Talk Dirty and Influence People”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• I was a Jew talking about Goyim religion. If I had just stuck to Moses, everything would have been cool. But, copping to being part of the whole Christ murder conspiracy got everyone goose-stepping again.

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  Talking, Goyim, Murder

  "The Lenny Bruce Interview, Jill Bourque’s How We First Met and Stage Time With Steven Alan Green". jewishjournal.com. April 7, 2013.

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• I know what "custody" [of the children] means. "Get even." That's all custody means. Get even with your old lady.

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  Children, Mean, Kids

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• You can't just run out and start the car until some cat invents a car.

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  Running, Cat, Car

  "The Lenny Bruce Interview, Jill Bourque’s How We First Met and Stage Time With Steven Alan Green". jewishjournal.com. April 7, 2013.

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• If I get busted in New York, the freest city in the world, that will be the end of my career.

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  New York, Cities In The World, Careers

  "New York Pardons Late Lenny Bruce". news.bbc.co.uk. December 23, 2003.

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• I want to perform an unnatural act.

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  Want, Unnatural

  "Fictional character: The Lone Ranger". "Thank You Mask Man", www.imdb.com. 1971.

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