Lester Bangs Quotes

It's much easier to wear a Chairman Mao button and shake your fists in the air and all that, then to actually read the Communist manifesto and things like that and actually become involved in politics.

Lester Bangs

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: critic
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 14, 1948 - April 30, 1982

Topics

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Scandals, corruption, partisan infighting - no wonder people have lost faith in Congress. I say enough is enough.

Joe Garcia

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I talk about myself. That's what I am. I'm a blogger. I have always decided that I was going to be an expert on one thing, and I am an expert on this person, and so I write about it.

Mena Grabowski Trott

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The record company's worst fear is that you'll fall in love or get rich.

Maynard James Keenan

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The saga of a nation is the saga of its families written large. And whoever owns the family owns the future.

Tony Evans

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Freedom lies in being bold.

Robert Frost

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I think when your parents die, it is kind of like a moving sidewalk: you're not just on the sideline and watching them go by. You know, you're going to the same place they are.

Roz Chast

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I don't want to get hung up on what 'people,' that nebulous mass, think about me. That's the way to unhappiness, I think.

Monica Ali

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That said, your values will not always be the object of public admiration. In fact, the more you live by your beliefs, the more you will endure the censure of the world.

Mitt Romney

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I never want to feel more than the viewers. I'm not trying to be an automaton. It's like when you see people laughing on camera, and you don't find it funny as a viewer - it's an offputting experience.

Louis Theroux

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I learned to approach racing like a game of billiards. If you bash the ball too hard, you get nowhere. As you handle the cue properly, you drive with more finesse.

Juan Manuel Fangio

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I've always been a serious computer nerd, as well as a biologist.

Joseph DeRisi

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The decline and fall of the modern religious right's notion of a Christian America creates a calmer political environment and, for many believers, may help open the way for a more theologically serious religious life.

Jon Meacham

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