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CHAD HUGO We did a black 'Julius Caesar' in which the predominant accent was Caribbean. This offends m... ROGER REES He was such a punk when he was a kid, ... It can be hard growing up in front of the public that way,... ETHAN HAWKE So recently I went back and walked it, and it was only 24 blocks. Walking up Wayside Drive from Aven... RODNEY CROWELL From spending ten years in hell and coming to this regime of kindness was a shock. It was so much of... STEPHEN RICHARDS Everyone has a different path. I knew no one in the acting industry growing up. I never did a play u... PETER FACINELLI When I was growing up, I was teased for being too skinny. I went to summer camp when I was 11. I wor... HANI FURSTENBERG If I'm doing a logo, I'll do it in black and white. Once the form is feeling right, only the... DAVID CARSON I know in my mind that she went right up to heaven. I know she forgave her mother. She knows her mot... 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MERVYN PEAKE Dancing was always part of my culture growing up in Barbados. When I shot my 1st video I worked real... RIHANNA In 1969, we emigrated to Australia. It was a big change. The heat, the flies, and the completely dif... MORRIS GLEITZMAN I love fashion. I always have. When I was a kid, I was in almost full-on costumes when I went to sch... LAKE BELL When I seen it, I was in shock. LISA FOREMAN Diversity doesn't mean black and white only. HENRY LOUIS GATES What I did not yet know so intensely was the hatred of the white American for the black, a hatred so... JEAN GENET I graduated pretty quickly. When I was eleven or twelve a close friend of the family got lynched. I ... MEDGAR EVERS I used to be mouthy. It was all to do with being a northerner and from Manchester, which was suddenl... JOHN SIMM I was a precocious only child, and then I went through a fat, awkward stage for several years, so I ... ARI GRAYNOR I remember seeing Tony Bennett on television. 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BRUCE HICKS It would be devastating. Delta would not operate. We would not fly and there are no contingency plan... BRUCE HICKS Today's outcome will not disrupt Delta service. Together with our pilots and all of our employees, w... BRUCE HICKS Last month we came precipitously close to filing for bankruptcy. We were fully prepared to file bank... BRUCE HICKS The question is whether American restructures its costs outside of bankruptcy court or through the c... BRUCE HICKS I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to... BRUCE LEE I believe the war on poverty is a more American idea than the war on the war on poverty. I believe t... BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN The real heroes are the librarians and teachers who at no small risk to themselves refuse to lie dow... BRUCE COVILLE The spirit of the individual is determined by his dominating thought habits. BRUCE LEE Don't fear failure. — Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious eve... BRUCE LEE A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at. BRUCE LEE Withholding information is the essence of tyranny. Control of the flow of information is the tool of... BRUCE COVILLE Rock music should be gross: that's the fun of it. It gets up and drops its trousers. BRUCE DICKINSON I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability. BRUCE JENNER Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity pre... BRUCE MARTON To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good... BRUCE CATTON In his first years in the White House, Mr. Roosevelt apologized for each annual deficit. Each new bu... BRUCE BARTON Circumstances hell! I make circumstances! BRUCE LEE Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses. BRUCE HENDERSON To me, the definition of focus is knowing exactly where you want to be today, next week, next month,... BRUCE JENNER If you want to take your mission in life to the next level, if you're stuck and you don't know how t... BRUCE JENNER Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established sty... BRUCE LEE If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your wo... BRUCE LEE If I wasn't dyslexic, I probably wouldn't have won the Games. If I had been a better reader, then th... BRUCE JENNER I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to min... BRUCE LEE Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the funct... BRUCE LEE Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against. BRUCE LEE Start early and begin raising the bar throughout the day. 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