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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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Lenny Bruce
Age: 40 †
Born: 1925
Born: October 13
Died: 1966
Died: August 3
Actor
Comedian
Journalist
Screenwriter
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Writer
Mineola
New York
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Whichever
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Live
Crowd
Crowds
Advertising
Biggest
Gonna
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Life is a four-letter word.
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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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You put a guy on a desert island, he'll do it to mud, a chicken, a barrel, anything, a knothole.
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Freedom of speech is a two way street, man. You have the right to say whatever you want and the Boss has a right to tell the police to arrest you.
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There is only what is and that's it. What should be is a dirty lie.
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Guys are like dogs. They keep comin' back. Ladies are like cats. Yell at a cat one time, they're gone.
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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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There are no dirty words, only dirty minds.
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You got a million drug laws now because the bosses figured there was more money in putting people in jail than taxing something anyone can grow on a window sill.
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Trying to figure things out was my gig. Without the human condition, there's no struggle, no pain and that means no laughter.
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What is truth today may be a damn lie next week.
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If you believe there is a God, a God that made your body, and yet you think that you can do anything with that body that's dirty, then the fault lies with the manufacturer.
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I would become a priest or a rabbi or a monk or whatever the hell was necessary to perform miracles such as taking money from someone else's pocket and putting it into mine, still remaining within the confines of the law.
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Let me tell you the truth: The truth is what is. And what should be is a fantasy a terrible, terrible lie that someone gave the people long ago.
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You can't just run out and start the car until some cat invents a car.
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Once the country was settled and built, the bosses changed the order from a stack of educated workers to a barrel of minimum wage lottery dreamers.
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I think it's about time we gave up religion and got back to God.
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I was surprised when Nixon passed the test and showed up in heaven, but, I guess Hitler threw off the curve for our century.
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