Lenny Bruce Quotes
The 'what should be' never did exist, but people keep trying to live up to it. There is no 'what should be,' there is only what is.
Bruce, Lenny. The Essential Lenny Bruce. Edited by John Cohen, Ballantine Books, 1967, p. 289.
In 1915 the Balkans was contorted by War and political intrigue. Serbia in particular was totally unrealistic about making any concessions to Bulgaria. Grey and his associates tried to explain the realities to the Serbian Ambassador who, before the British could articulate the whole situation, told them that he and the rest of the Serbian leadership would rather die than give up any territory. Grey later observed :
At the time he was referring to the George W. Bush administration which maintained a passive policy on global warming issues. Gore opined that Bush would be forced to deal with the problem shortly as the scientific and physical evidence was mounting.
Leonard Alfred Schneider, better known by his stage name Lenny Bruce, was an American stand-up comedian, social critic, and satirist. He was renowned for his open, freestyle and critical form of comedy which contained satire, politics, religion, sex, and vulgarity. His 1964 conviction in an obscenity trial was followed by a posthumous pardon, the first in the history of New York State, by Governor George Pataki in 2003.