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BRUCE JENNER I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you... BRUCE JENNER You just wait. I'm going to be the biggest Chinese Star in the world. BRUCE LEE I won't say ours was a tough school, but we had our own coroner. We used to write essays like 'Wh... LENNY BRUCE The future looks extremely bright indeed, with lots of possibilities ahead -- big possibilities. Lik... BRUCE LEE Satire is tragedy plus time. You give it enough time, the public, the reviewers will allow you to sa... LENNY BRUCE Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things. I am tempted to thin... BRUCE BARTON When a load of bricks, dumped on a corner lot, can arrange themselves into a house; when a handful o... BRUCE BARTON If you're going to dedicate every second to winning the decathlon, what are you doing wasting your t... BRUCE JENNER If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm. BRUCE BARTON The reason I'm in this business, I assume all performers are -- it's Look at me, Ma! It's acceptance... LENNY BRUCE The notion that big business and big labor and big government can sit down around a table somewhere ... BRUCE BABBIT I used to think that cyberspace was fifty years away. What I thought was fifty years away, was only ... BRUCE STERLING All my humor is based upon destruction and despair. If the whole world were tranquil, without diseas... LENNY BRUCE The role of a comedian is to make the audience laugh, at a minimum of once every fifteen seconds. LENNY BRUCE No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one va... BRUCE BARTON