Straight Americans need ... an education of the heart and soul. They must understand, to begin with, how it can feel to spend years denying your own deepest truths, to sit silently through classes, meals, and church services while people you love toss off remarks that brutalize your soul.


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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
Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity tha...
BRUCE BARTON
As a profession advertising is young; as a force it is as old as the world. The first four words eve...
BRUCE BARTON
What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will no...
BRUCE BARTON
Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln.
BRUCE BARTON
The liberals can understand everything but people who don't understand them.
LENNY BRUCE
In the Halls of Justice, the only justice is in the halls.
LENNY BRUCE
The ablest men in all walks of modern life are men of faith. Most of them have much more faith than ...
BRUCE BARTON
We pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wi...
BRUCE BARTON
A lot of people say to me, Why did you kill Christ? I dunno... it was one of those parties, got out ...
LENNY BRUCE
In every pang that rends the heart the Man of Sorrows has a part.
MICHAEL BRUCE
When you're through changing, you're through.
BRUCE BARTON
If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric...
LENNY BRUCE
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them...
BRUCE BARTON
The essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming sincerity -- an overwhelming faith in the...
BRUCE BARTON
Advertising is the very essence of democracy.
BRUCE BARTON
Such is an actor's life. We must ride the waves of every film, barfing occasionally, yet maintain ou...
BRUCE CAMPBELL
Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.
BRUCE LEE
Communism is like one big phone company.
LENNY BRUCE
For good or ill, your conversation is your advertisement. Every time you open your mouth you let men...
BRUCE BURTON
Today's comedian has a cross to bear that he built himself. A comedian of the older generation did a...
LENNY BRUCE
The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can
LENNY BRUCE
America has the longest prison sentences in the West, yet the only condition long sentences demonstr...
BRUCE JACKSON
Too many children in foster care are falling through cracks. . . . Be a hero -- take the time learn ...
BRUCE WILLIS
Conceit is God's gift to little men
BRUCE BARTON
In every pang that rends the heart The Man of Sorrows had a part.
MICHAEL BRUCE
Now a Jew, in the dictionary, is one who is descended from the ancient tribes of Judea, or one who i...
LENNY BRUCE
The thing with Catholicism, the same as all religions, is that it teaches what should be, which seem...
LENNY BRUCE
Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God.
LENNY BRUCE
The height of cultivation runs to simplicity. Halfway cultivation runs to ornamentation.
BRUCE LEE
It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.
BRUCE LEE
Many a person who goes on a diet finds out in short order that they are poor losers
BRUCE FROEMMING